Debian DSA-2831-1 : puppet - insecure temporary files

low Nessus Plugin ID 71779

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

An unsafe use of temporary files was discovered in Puppet, a tool for centralized configuration management. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability and overwrite an arbitrary file in the system.

Solution

Upgrade the puppet packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.2-5+squeeze9.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.23-1~deb7u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 71779

File Name: debian_DSA-2831.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/2/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:puppet, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/31/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4969

BID: 64552

DSA: 2831

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