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Ubuntu 11.10: 1365-1 Moderate: Puppet Network Access Issue

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2012
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Puppet would allow unintended access to resources over the network.

Summary

Puppet would allow unintended access to resources over the network.

Software Description:

- puppet: Centralized configuration management

Details:

It was discovered that Puppet would allow remote ralsh under certain

circumstances. An attacker on an authenticated puppet node could exploit

this to view or manipulate resources on other Puppet nodes.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory access control ubuntu network attack puppet

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10:
  puppet-common                   2.7.1-1ubuntu3.4

Ubuntu 11.04:
  puppet-common                   2.6.4-2ubuntu2.7

Ubuntu 10.10:
  puppet-common                   2.6.1-0ubuntu2.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1365-1

CVE-2011-0528

Severity
important
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Low
Medium
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Critical

February 14, 2012

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Topics Covered

security advisory access control ubuntu network attack puppet

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.7.1-1ubuntu3.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.6.4-2ubuntu2.7
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.6.1-0ubuntu2.5

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