GLSA 201710-12: Puppet Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Puppet Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	10/13/2017
Bugs:	#597684
ID:	201710-12

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet Agent, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Puppet Agent contains Puppet’s main code and all of the dependencies needed to run it, including Facter, Hiera, and bundled versions of Ruby and OpenSSL.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-admin/puppet-agent	< 1.7.1	>= 1.7.1	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet Agent. Please review the references for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Puppet Agent users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/puppet-agent-1.7.1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201710-12.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.