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Cfengine RSA Authentication Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA12251
Release Date: 2004-08-10
Last Update: 2005-02-22
Popularity: 7,231 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Cfengine 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Juan Pablo Martinez Kuhn has discovered two vulnerabilities in Cfengine, allowing malicious people to compromise the system or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to insufficient input validation and a boundary error in the cfservd daemon when processing authentication requests. The problems lies in the "AuthenticationDialogue()" function, which is responsible for performing RSA authentication and key agreement.

This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and thereby execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities reportedly affect Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1.

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