Gentoo Linux: GLSA-200408-08 High: Cfengine Heap Corruption Risk
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August 10, 2004
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
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Cfengine is vulnerable to a remote root exploit from clients in
AllowConnectionsFrom.
Background
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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
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/cfengine <= 2.1.17 >= 2.1.8
net-misc/cfengine >= 2.0.0 >= 2.1.8
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Two vulnerabiliti...
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