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Gentoo Linux: GLSA-200408-08 High: Cfengine Heap Corruption Risk

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2004
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Critical alert issued for Gentoo Linux concerning cfengine's RSA auth heap overflow vulnerabilities and associated remote attack potential.
Cfengine is vulnerable to a remote root exploit from clients in AllowConnectionsFrom.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Cfengine : RSA Authentication Heap Corruption Date: August 10, 2004 Bugs: #59895 ID: 200408-08

Synopsis ======= Cfengine is vulnerable to a remote root exploit from clients in AllowConnectionsFrom.
Background ========= Cfengine is an agent/software robot and a high level policy language for building expert systems to administrate and configure large computer networks.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/cfengine <= 2.1.17 >= 2.1.8 net-misc/cfengine >= 2.0.0 >= 2.1.8
========== Two vulnerabiliti...

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