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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : puppet vulnerability (USN-1217-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56332

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

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.

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Solution

Update the affected puppet-common package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1217-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56332

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1217-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3848

USN: 1217-1