Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 : puppet vulnerabilities (USN-1419-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58680

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Puppet used a predictable filename when downloading Mac OS X package files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files. (CVE-2012-1906)

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled filebucket retrieval requests. A local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary files.
(CVE-2012-1986)

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled filebucket store requests. A local attacker could exploit this to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion. (CVE-2012-1987)

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled filebucket requests.
A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file path. (CVE-2012-1988)

It was discovered that Puppet used a predictable filename for the Telnet connection log file. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.10.
(CVE-2012-1989).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58680

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1419-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 4/11/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1906, CVE-2012-1986, CVE-2012-1987, CVE-2012-1988, CVE-2012-1989

USN: 1419-1

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