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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-4581
2011-10-04 18:02:39
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Name : puppet
Product : Fedora EPEL 4
Version : 0.25.5
Release : 2.el4
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:
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed:
* CVE-2011-3848, a directory traversal attack
* CVE-2011-3870, a symlink attack via a user's SSH authorized_keys file
* CVE-2011-3869, a symlink attack via a user's .k5login file
* CVE-2011-3871, a privilege escalation attack via the temp file used by the puppet
resource application
* A low-risk file indirector injection attack
Further details can be found in the upstream announcements:
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce274...
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b...
Additionally, fixes for several bugs are included:
* Yumrepo deprecation error (
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4252)
* Handle CR/LF in puppet.conf (
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3514)
* Capture stderr from exec resources (
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2359)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #742644 - CVE-2011-3870 puppet: SSH authorized_keys symlink attack
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742644
[ 2 ] Bug #742645 - CVE-2011-3869 puppet: K5login content attack
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742645
[ 3 ] Bug #742649 - CVE-2011-3871 puppet: predictable temporary file using RAL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742649
[ 4 ] Bug #742174 - CVE-2011-3848 puppet: Directory traversal attack by processing
certain x509 certificate signing requests
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742174
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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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