Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2511-1 puppet

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2511-1 puppet -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

12 Jul 2012

Affected Packages:

puppet

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3864, CVE-2012-3865, CVE-2012-3866, CVE-2012-3867.

More information:

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.

We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.