DSA-2352-1 puppet -- programming error

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2011-3872  

It was discovered that Puppet, a centralized configuration management solution, misgenerated certificates if the certdnsnames option was used. This could lead to man in the middle attacks. More details are available on the Puppet web site. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.24.5-3+lenny2. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.2-5+squeeze3. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2352-1 puppet -- programming error

Date Reported:
22 Nov 2011
Affected Packages:
puppet
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-3872.
More information:

It was discovered that Puppet, a centralized configuration management solution, misgenerated certificates if the certdnsnames option was used. This could lead to man in the middle attacks. More details are available on the Puppet web site.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.24.5-3+lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.2-5+squeeze3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your puppet packages.