Fedora 17 : puppet-2.7.21-2.fc17 (2013-4187)

high Nessus Plugin ID 65749

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Updates for the security announcements from Puppet Labs on 12-Mar-2013.

https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/t/9200f268f8479e2c

This update also provides backported fixes for a number of issues with ruby-1.9.

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919770

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919774

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919775

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919783

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919784

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919785

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-announce/kgDyaPhHniw

http://www.nessus.org/u?43c541af

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 65749

File Name: fedora_2013-4187.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:puppet, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1640, CVE-2013-1652, CVE-2013-1653, CVE-2013-1654, CVE-2013-1655, CVE-2013-2275

BID: 58442, 58443, 58446, 58449, 58452, 58453

FEDORA: 2013-4187