Medium: puppet

Issue Overview:

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

Affected Packages:

puppet

Issue Correction:
Run yum update puppet to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    puppet-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.6.amzn1.i686  
    puppet-2.6.16-1.6.amzn1.i686  
    puppet-server-2.6.16-1.6.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    puppet-2.6.16-1.6.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    puppet-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.6.amzn1.x86_64  
    puppet-2.6.16-1.6.amzn1.x86_64  
    puppet-server-2.6.16-1.6.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-1986

Mitre: CVE-2012-1986