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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 suspectible to a symlink
attack. The author has been notified of the problem but has not
released a fix yet.

We recommend you upgrade your cfengine package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm
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  This version of Debian was released only for the Intel and the
  Motorola 680x0 architecture.

  Source archives:
    _1.4.9.orig.tar.gz
	  MD5 checksum: 9c952524f2ce0a3dae6728f63d28a3ce
    .4.9-3.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 9de13ab36791319a846f5d50248b8ed5
    -3.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 6d5f1d2c10ec0a0eeef07dd73244bb44

  Intel architecture:
          MD5 checksum: c935781e39141fdcc5b3e3e7a1b5ac7b

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
          MD5 checksum: 8628802255c66796f8acd3fe1844bb0b


For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory  .

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New versions of cfengine fixes symlink attack

December 13, 1999
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 suspec...

Summary

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 suspectible to a symlink
attack. The author has been notified of the problem but has not
released a fix yet.

We recommend you upgrade your cfengine package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm

This version of Debian was released only for the Intel and the
Motorola 680x0 architecture.

Source archives:
_1.4.9.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 9c952524f2ce0a3dae6728f63d28a3ce
.4.9-3.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 9de13ab36791319a846f5d50248b8ed5
-3.dsc
MD5 checksum: 6d5f1d2c10ec0a0eeef07dd73244bb44

Intel architecture:
MD5 checksum: c935781e39141fdcc5b3e3e7a1b5ac7b

Motorola 680x0 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 8628802255c66796f8acd3fe1844bb0b


For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory .

- --
Debian GNU/Linux . Security Managers . security@debian.org
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Christian Hudon . Wichert Akkerman . Martin Schulze
. .


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