J-Security Center

Title: Debian Linux cfengine Symlink Vulnerability

Severity: INFO

Description:

Cfengine, or the configuration engine is a very high level language for building expert systems which administrate and configure large computer networks. Cfengine, during it's cleanup activity on homedirectories, is vulnerable to symlink attacks.

Affected Products:

  • Debian Linux 2.0.0

References:

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