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Debian 3.1: DSA-836-1 Moderate: cfengine2 File Overwriting Threat

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2005
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The concern of overwriting arbitrary files was addressed in cfengine2 through Debian Security Advisory DSA 836-1, released on the 1st of October, 2005.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1.14-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your cfengine2 package.


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

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 825 c3ee62f9ce0b5432069c59049bc0c652
Size/MD5 checksum: 32635 ab7a8c127448eca0dce586c9ba672a85
Size/MD5 checksum: 3513765 bc60a13b6890275ba6b17a07c257cac5

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum...

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