Fedora 14 : puppet-2.6.6-3.fc14 (2011-13633)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56516

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed :

- CVE-2011-3870, a symlink attack via a user's SSH authorized_keys file

- CVE-2011-3869, a symlink attack via a user's .k5login file

- CVE-2011-3871, a privilege escalation attack via the temp file used by the puppet resource application

- A low-risk file indirector injection attack

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement :

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91 e3b46d2328a1cb A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application. For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement :

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce 2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue. A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application. For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement :

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce 2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue. A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application. For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement :

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce 2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue. A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application. For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement :

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce 2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue. A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application. For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement :

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce 2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected puppet package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56516

File Name: fedora_2011-13633.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:puppet

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3869, CVE-2011-3870, CVE-2011-3871

FEDORA: 2011-13633

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