USN-3308-1: Puppet vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3308-1
5th June, 2017
puppet vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in Puppet.
Software description
- puppet
– Centralized configuration management
Details
Dennis Rowe discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled the search path. A
local attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2014-3248)
It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled YAML deserialization. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code on
the master. This update is incompatible with agents older than 3.2.2.
(CVE-2017-2295)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
puppet-common
3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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