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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71473
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2511-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'puppet' package(s) announced via the DSA-2511-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'puppet' package(s) announced via the DSA-2511-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several security vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet, a centralized configuration management:

CVE-2012-3864

Authenticated clients could read arbitrary files on the puppet master.

CVE-2012-3865

Authenticated clients could delete arbitrary files on the puppet master.

CVE-2012-3866

The report of the most recent Puppet run was stored with world readable permissions, resulting in information disclosure.

CVE-2012-3867

Agent hostnames were insufficiently validated.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.2-5+squeeze6.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.18-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'puppet' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-3864
Debian Security Information: DSA-2511 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
http://secunia.com/advisories/50014
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2012:0983 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:0891 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-3865
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-3866
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-3867
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG

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