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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3862-1 (puppet - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

6 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

It was discovered that unrestricted YAML deserialisation of data sent from agents to the server in the Puppet configuration management system could result in the execution of arbitrary code. Note that this fix breaks backward compatibility with Puppet agents older than 3.2.2 and there is no safe way to restore it. This affects puppet agents running on Debian wheezy. We recommend to update to the puppet version shipped in wheezy-backports.

Affected Software

Affected Software

puppet on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.7.2-4+deb8u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.8.2-5. We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)