Ubuntu 11.04 USN-1217-1 Moderate: Puppet Remote File Overwrite

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September 29, 2011

An attacker could send crafted input to puppet and cause it to overwrite files.

Summary

An attacker could send crafted input to puppet and cause it to overwrite

files.

Software Description:

- puppet: Centralized configuration management - agent startup and compatib

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.

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate file overwrite remote attack ubuntu puppet

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 LTS:
  puppet-common                   0.25.4-2ubuntu6.2

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