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Cfengine Remotely Exploitable Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA9855
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Release Date:
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2003-09-26
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Popularity:
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6,365 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Cfengine 2.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Cfengine allowing malicious people to execute arbitrary code on the master server.
The problem is that it is possible to overflow the receive buffer by sending more than 4096 bytes to port 5308/tcp. This could be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability affects versions 2.x prior to version 2.0.8.
Solution:
Version 2.0.8 is not vulnerable.
http://www.cfengine.org/mirrors.html
Filter access at your perimeter and on the master server allowing only trusted IP adresses to connect.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Nick Cleaton
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