Debian: DSA-2314-1 Moderate: Puppet Local Privilege Escalation Issues

Multiple security issues have been discovered in puppet, a centralized
configuration management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2011-3848

Kristian Erik Hermansen reported that an unauthenticated
directory traversal could drop any valid X.509 Certificate Signing
Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet
Master application.

CVE-2011-3870

Ricky Zhou discovered a potential local privilege escalation in the
ssh_authorized_keys resource and theoretically in the Solaris and
AIX providers, where file ownership was given away before it was
written, leading to a possibility for a user to overwrite arbitrary
files as root, if their authorized_keys file was managed.

CVE-2011-3869

A predictable file name in the k5login type leads to the possibility
of symlink attacks which would allow the owner of the home directory
to symlink to anything on the system, and have it replaced wi...