CVE-2017-2298

The CVE-2017-2298 entry concerns the mcollective-sshkey-security plugin for Puppet prior to version 0.5.1. The root cause is that the plugin uses a server-specified identifier as part of the path where a file is written, enabling a compromised server to cause a file to be written to an arbitrary ...

CVE-2017-2298

The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string "pub.pem"...

CVE-2017-2292

Versions of MCollective prior to 2.10.4 deserialized YAML from agents without calling safeload, allowing the potential for arbitrary code execution on the server. The fix for this is to call YAML.safeload on input. This has been tested in all Puppet-supplied MCollective plugins, but there is a...

CVE-2017-2292

CVE-2017-2292 affects MCollective prior to 2.10.4, where YAML from agents was deserialized without safe_load, enabling potential arbitrary code execution on the server. The documented fix is to use YAML.safe_load on input. This issue has been tested with Puppet-provided MCollective plugins, but t...

System Integrity Management Platform: SIMP

System Integrity Management Platform The System Integrity Management Platform SIMP is an Open Source framework designed around the concept that individuals and organizations should not need to repeat the work of automating the basic components of their operating system infrastructure. Expanding...

Important: puppet3

Issue Overview: Unsafe YAML deserialization: Versions of Puppet prior to 4.10.1 will deserialize data off the wire from the agent to the server, in this case with a attacker-specified format. This could be used to force YAML deserialization in an unsafe manner, which would lead to remote code...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: puppet-4.6.2-4.fc26

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system usin g a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, an...

Updated puppet packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that unrestricted YAML deserialisation of data sent from agents to the server in the Puppet configuration management system could result in the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2017-2295...

MGASA-2017-0156 Updated puppet packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that unrestricted YAML deserialisation of data sent from agents to the server in the Puppet configuration management system could result in the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2017-2295...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Puppet vulnerabilities (USN-3308-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3308-1 advisory. Dennis Rowe discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled the search path. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3308-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3308-1 puppet vulnerabilities

Dennis Rowe discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled the search path. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-3248 It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled YAML deserialization. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute...

USN-3308-1: Puppet vulnerabilities

Dennis Rowe discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled the search path. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-3248 It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled YAML deserialization. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute...

Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2017-8ad8d1bd86

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: puppet-4.2.1-5.fc25

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system usin g a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, an...

Fedora 25 : puppet (2017-8ad8d1bd86)

Security fix for CVE-2017-2295 and fix for using systemd service provider in a chroot. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

DevOps: Vagrant with AWS EC2 & Digital Ocean

The Benefits of Vagrant Plugins Following on from my recent DevOps blog posts, The DevOps Tools We Use & How We Use Them and Vagrant with Chef-Server, we will take another step forward and look into provisioning our servers in the cloud. There are many cloud providers out there, most who provide...

Debian DSA-3862-1 : puppet - security update

It was discovered that unrestricted YAML deserialisation of data sent from agents to the server in the Puppet configuration management system could result in the execution of arbitrary code. Note that this fix breaks backward compability with Puppet agents older than 3.2.2 and there is no safe wa...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3862-1] puppet security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3862-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff May 25, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3862-1 (puppet - security update)

It was discovered that unrestricted YAML deserialisation of data sent from agents to the server in the Puppet configuration management system could result in the execution of arbitrary code. Note that this fix breaks backward compability with Puppet agents older than 3.2.2 and there is no safe wa...