Fedora 16 : puppet-2.6.16-1.fc16 (2012-5999)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58909

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes several security issues recently found in puppet related to filebucket functionality. For full details, refer to the upstream release notes :

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15

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.

See Also

https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6.0/release_notes_puppet.html#2.6.15

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810069

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810070

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810071

http://www.nessus.org/u?2b35c7a5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58909

File Name: fedora_2012-5999.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:puppet, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1986, CVE-2012-1987, CVE-2012-1988

BID: 52975

FEDORA: 2012-5999