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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201203-03">
  <title>Puppet: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet, the worst of
    which might allow local attackers to gain escalated privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">puppet</product>
  <announced>2012-03-06</announced>
  <revised count="1">2012-03-06</revised>
  <bug>303729</bug>
  <bug>308031</bug>
  <bug>384859</bug>
  <bug>385149</bug>
  <bug>388161</bug>
  <bug>403963</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/puppet" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.7.11</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.11</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Puppet is a system configuration management tool written in Ruby.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker could gain elevated privileges, or access and modify
      arbitrary files.  Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to spoof a
      Puppet Master or write X.509 Certificate Signing Requests to arbitrary
      locations.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Puppet users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/puppet-2.7.11"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3564">CVE-2009-3564</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0156">CVE-2010-0156</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3848">CVE-2011-3848</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3869">CVE-2011-3869</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3870">CVE-2011-3870</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3871">CVE-2011-3871</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3872">CVE-2011-3872</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1053">CVE-2012-1053
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1054">CVE-2012-1054</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:02Z" tag="requester">craig</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="2012-03-06T01:03:42Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>