Medium: facter

Issue Overview:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.

Affected Packages:

facter

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

New Packages:

noarch:  
    facter-1.6.18-7.25.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    facter-1.6.18-7.25.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-3248

Mitre: CVE-2014-3248