DSA-2715-1 puppet -- code execution

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2715-1 puppet -- code execution

Date Reported:

26 Jun 2013

Affected Packages:

puppet

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-3567.

More information:

It was discovered that puppet, a centralized configuration management system, did not correctly handle YAML payloads. A remote attacker could use a specially-crafted payload to execute arbitrary code on the puppet master.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed in version 2.6.2-5+squeeze8.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.18-5.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.