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Debian DSA-2831-2 Puppet Regression Update: Affected File Mode

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2014
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Debian Notice DSA-2831-3 addresses a puppet issue resulting from CVE-2013-4970 and advises users to perform updates.
The fix for CVE-2013-4969 contained a regression affecting the default file mode if none is specified on a file resource
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Summary

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this regression.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7.23-1~deb7u3.

For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.2-1.

For reference, the original advisory text follows.

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 3.4.1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.

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