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Ubuntu: USN-1234-1 Severe: Puppet Resource Management Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 31, 2013
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A critical vulnerability in Puppet's handling of temporary files could enable remote attackers to manipulate and replace files; a patch has been released in the latest security update.
An unsafe use of temporary files was discovered in Puppet, a tool for centralized configuration management
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Summary

An unsafe use of temporary files was discovered in Puppet, a tool for
centralized configuration management. An attacker can exploit this
vulnerability and overwrite an arbitrary file in the system.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.2-5+squeeze9.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7.23-1~deb7u2.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4.0-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: puppet
CVE ID: CVE-2013-4969

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