Vulnerability CVE-2005-2960
Published: 2005-10-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
cfengine 1.6.5 and 2.1.16 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by vicf.in, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3137.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
GNU -> Cfengine 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-836
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-835
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cfengine.help/browse_thread/thread/fc25e7d98f8ba401/38151ed821803be0#38151ed821803be0
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/22489
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14994
http://secunia.com/advisories/17037/
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-198-1
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:184
http://secunia.com/advisories/17215
http://secunia.com/advisories/17182
http://secunia.com/advisories/17142
http://secunia.com/advisories/17040
http://secunia.com/advisories/17038
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