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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-4768
2011-10-27 18:32:43
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Name : puppet
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 2.6.12
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://puppetlabs.com
Summary : A network tool for managing many disparate systems
Description :
Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a
cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements
normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts,
along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files.
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Update Information:
A bug in puppet's SSL certificate handling could allow nodes with a valid certificate
to impersonate the puppet master. To be vulnerable, a user would have had to set the
certdnsnames variable and generated certificates. This setting is not set by default in
the Fedora/EPEL packages.
This update closes the vulnerability in newly generated certificates, but cannot prevent
existing certificates from being used to exploit the vulnerability. Please refer to the
upstream documentation for more details on mitigation and remediation of this issue, if
you have generate certificates that are vulnerable to this issue:
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3872/
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update puppet' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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