[SECURITY] New versions of cfengine fixes symlink attack

From: Wichert Akkerman (wichertat_private)
Date: Mon Feb 15 1999 - 16:12:20 PST

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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:
        ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/admin/cfengine_1.4.9.orig.tar.gz
    	  MD5 checksum: 9c952524f2ce0a3dae6728f63d28a3ce
        ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/admin/cfengine_1.4.9-3.diff.gz
          MD5 checksum: 9de13ab36791319a846f5d50248b8ed5
        ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/admin/cfengine_1.4.9-3.dsc
          MD5 checksum: 6d5f1d2c10ec0a0eeef07dd73244bb44
    
      Intel architecture:
        ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/admin/cfengine_1.4.9-3_i386.deb
          MD5 checksum: c935781e39141fdcc5b3e3e7a1b5ac7b
    
      Motorola 680x0 architecture:
        ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/admin/cfengine_1.4.9-3_m68k.deb
          MD5 checksum: 8628802255c66796f8acd3fe1844bb0b
    
    
    For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
    directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .
    
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    Debian GNU/Linux      .    Security Managers     .   securityat_private
                  debian-security-announceat_private
      Christian Hudon     .     Wichert Akkerman     .     Martin Schulze
    <chrishat_private>   .   <wakkermaat_private>  .   <joeyat_private>
    
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