CVE-2012-1987

Publication date 11 April 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
puppet 11.10 oneiric
Fixed 2.7.1-1ubuntu3.6
11.04 natty
Fixed 2.6.4-2ubuntu2.9
10.10 maverick Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 0.25.4-2ubuntu6.7
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life

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