USN-1217-1: Puppet vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• puppet - centralised configuration management for networks

Details

Kristian Erik Hermansen discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in
the SSLFile indirection base class. A remote attacker could exploit this to
overwrite files with the privileges of the Puppet Master.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04

• puppet-common - 2.6.4-2ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 10.10

• puppet-common - 2.6.1-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• puppet-common - 0.25.4-2ubuntu6.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2011-3848