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cfengine format string vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
Gain a shell remotely
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
10.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Cfengine is running on this remote host. Cfengine contains a component, cfd, which serves as a remote-configuration client to cfengine. This version of cfd contains several flaws in the way that it calls syslog(). As a result, trusted hosts and valid users (if access controls are not in place) can cause the vulnerable host to log malicious data which, when logged, can either crash the server or execute arbitrary code on the stack. In the latter case, the code would be executed as the 'root' user.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to 1.6.0a11 or newer