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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2419-1 (puppet)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to puppet announced via advisory DSA 2419-1.
Insight
Insight
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Puppet, a centralized configuration management tool. CVE-2012-1053 Puppet runs execs with an unintended group privileges, potentially leading to privilege escalation. CVE-2012-1054 The k5login type writes to untrusted locations, enabling local users to escalate their privileges if the k5login type is used. For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.2-5+squeeze4. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.11-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.