Puppet: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

Puppet is a system configuration management tool written in Ruby.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Puppet users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/puppet-2.7.23"