TITLE:
Debian update for cfengine2

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17040

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17040/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
http://secunia.com/product/5307/
Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid
http://secunia.com/product/530/

DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for cfengine2. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated
privileges.

For more information:
SA17037

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

-- Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 825 c3ee62f9ce0b5432069c59049bc0c652
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 32635 ab7a8c127448eca0dce586c9ba672a85
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3513765 bc60a13b6890275ba6b17a07c257cac5

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2-doc_2.1.14-1sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 510730 0f6ff1887770d9fe9070dddebdcc5edf

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 827762 5c9ced60f5d41e785a55ba7b4582a796

AMD64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 701256 b4888a6dc496aaa48b2a0fdc3715a67f

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 685630 a48e6708452f90c1e8d4fe993e3f4771

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 649868 b77b9785ac4b67f0701039b436a3244c

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 984586 3defd29cd3a9d4eea73ee5b4711bd944

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 752410 a53dea0a28cb6e55bb9c707dafe2def7

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 566602 b803dacc74b7a3a8fe0d871a994e96d8

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 721626 f85c4d747912fe55625d993479f45167

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 718708 b667ffc1a228ca13f1fd65642d5504c9

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 702944 63b9669606bbfc5bb97eaca5bd1f5f55

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 683930 822f52d113e7d4798be7e5fb9e542f25

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 673916 e1cc606ccd6fb6345140839a340e4640

-- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid --

The vulnerability will reportedly be fixed soon.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-836

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17037:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17037/

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