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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : puppet vulnerability (USN-2077-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 71837

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented by the Yama link restrictions.

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

Solution

Update the affected puppet-common package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2077-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 71837

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2077-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2014

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: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/7/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4969

USN: 2077-1