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Ubuntu 13.04: Critical Puppet Network Vulnerability USN-1886-1 Alert

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2013
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A security flaw in Puppet permits remote command execution through specially forged network packets on Ubuntu distributions.
Puppet could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Puppet could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted

network traffic.

Software Description:

- puppet: Centralized configuration management

Details:

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled YAML payloads. An

attacker on an untrusted client could use this issue to execute arbitrary

code on the master.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution configuration management ubuntu network exploit puppet

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.04:
  puppet-common                   2.7.18-4ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  puppet-common                   2.7.18-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  puppet-common                   2.7.11-1ubuntu2.3

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1886-1

CVE-2013-3567

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June 18, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution configuration management ubuntu network exploit puppet

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.7.18-4ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.7.18-1ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.7.11-1ubuntu2.3

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