CVE-2005-2960 Affecting cfengine2 package, versions <2.1.17-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-CFENGINE2-274385
  • published5 Oct 2005
  • disclosed5 Oct 2005

Introduced: 5 Oct 2005

CVE-2005-2960  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 cfengine2 to version 2.1.17-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cfengine2 package and not the cfengine2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1