GLSA 201203-03: Puppet: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	Puppet: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	03/06/2012
Bugs:	#303729, #308031, #384859, #385149, #388161, #403963
ID:	201203-03

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet, the worst of which might allow local attackers to gain escalated privileges.

Background

Puppet is a system configuration management tool written in Ruby.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-admin/puppet	< 2.7.11	>= 2.7.11	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker could gain elevated privileges, or access and modify arbitrary files. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to spoof a Puppet Master or write X.509 Certificate Signing Requests to arbitrary locations.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Puppet users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/puppet-2.7.11"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-03.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.