Medium: puppet

Issue Overview:

The (1) template and (2) inline_template functions in the master server in Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted catalog request.

Affected Packages:

puppet

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    puppet-debuginfo-2.7.21-2.11.amzn1.i686  
    puppet-server-2.7.21-2.11.amzn1.i686  
    puppet-2.7.21-2.11.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    puppet-2.7.21-2.11.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    puppet-debuginfo-2.7.21-2.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    puppet-2.7.21-2.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    puppet-server-2.7.21-2.11.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-1640

Mitre: CVE-2013-1640