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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2511-1 (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 2511-1.
Insight
Insight
Several security vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet, a centralized configuration management: CVE-2012-3864 Authenticated clients could read arbitrary files on the puppet master. CVE-2012-3865 Authenticated clients could delete arbitrary files on the puppet master. CVE-2012-3866 The report of the most recent Puppet run was stored with world- readable permissions, resulting in information disclosure. CVE-2012-3867 Agent hostnames were insufficiently validated. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.2-5+squeeze6. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.18-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.