The maintainer of Debian
GNU/Linux cfengine package found
a error in the way cfengine handles temporary files when it runs the tidy
action on homedirectories, which makes it susceptible to a symlink
attack. The author has been notified of the problem but has not
released a fix yet.
Fixed in:
source: _1.4.9.orig.tar.gz
.4.9-3.diff.gz
-3.dsc
i386:
m68k:
TDeb: Security problem with temp file handling
January 12, 2000
There is an error in the way the cfengine package handles temporary files whenit runs the tidy action on homedirectories