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SuSE 11.1 Security Update : puppet (SAT Patch Number 5421)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 57129
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Synopsis
The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The following security issues have been fixed :- Puppet's certificate authority issued Puppet agent certificates capable of impersonating the Puppet master.
Compromised or rogue puppet agents could therefore use their certificates for MITM attacks. (CVE-2011-3872)
Note: If you've set the 'certdnsnames' option in your master's puppet.conf file merely installing the updated packages is not sufficient to fix this problem. You need to either pick a new DNS name for the master and reconfigure all agents to use it or re-new certificates on all agents.
Please refer to the documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/puppet/puppetlabs-cve20113872-0.
0.5 for detailed instructions and scripts.
Puppetlabs' site also provides more information:
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3872/faq/ http://puppetlabs.com/blog/important-security-announceme nt-altnames-vulnerability/
- Directory traversal vulnerability in puppet allowed unauthenticated remote attackers to upload x.509 certificate signing requests to arbitrary locations.
(CVE-2011-3848)
- Puppet was prone to several symlink attacks (CVE-2011-3870 / CVE-2011-3869 / CVE-2011-3871)
Solution
Apply SAT patch number 5421.See Also
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721139
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726372
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727024
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727025
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3848.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3869.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3870.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 57129
File Name: suse_11_puppet-111111.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 12/13/2011
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:puppet-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:puppet, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11
Required KB Items: Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release
Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-3848, CVE-2011-3869, CVE-2011-3870, CVE-2011-3871, CVE-2011-3872