Ubuntu 12.04/12.10/13.04/13.10 Puppet vulnerability (USN-2077-1) - overwriting arbitrary file
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 34 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 2831-2] puppet regression update | 17 Jan 201416:07 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 2831-1] puppet security update | 31 Dec 201316:46 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 2831-2] puppet regression update | 17 Jan 201416:07 | – | debian |
![]() | Updated puppet & puppet3 packages fix CVE-2013-4969 and a regression | 20 Feb 201401:15 | – | mageia |
![]() | Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : puppet (MDVSA-2014:040) | 19 Feb 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 20 : puppet-3.4.2-1.fc20 (2014-0825) | 24 Jan 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 19 : puppet-3.4.2-1.fc19 (2014-0850) | 24 Jan 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Puppet Symlink File Overwrite | 27 Jan 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2014-288) | 5 Feb 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DSA-2831-1 : puppet - insecure temporary files | 2 Jan 201400:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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cve | www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi |
usn | www.usn.ubuntu.com/2077-1/ |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2077-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(71837);
script_version("1.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-4969");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2077-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : puppet vulnerability (USN-2077-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled temporary files. A
local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary
files. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented
by the Yama link restrictions.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/2077-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected puppet-common package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/01/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/01/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/01/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(12\.04|12\.10|13\.04|13\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"puppet-common", pkgver:"2.7.11-1ubuntu2.6")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"puppet-common", pkgver:"2.7.18-1ubuntu1.4")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"13.04", pkgname:"puppet-common", pkgver:"2.7.18-4ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"13.10", pkgname:"puppet-common", pkgver:"3.2.4-2ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "puppet-common");
}
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