ID USN-2077-1 Type ubuntu Reporter Ubuntu Modified 2014-01-06T00:00:00
Description
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.
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(CVE-2013-4164)\n\n - An error exists related to the included RubyGems version and 'gem build', 'Gem::Package', and 'Gem::PackageTask' API calls that could allow denial of service attacks. (CVE-2013-4363)\n\n - An error exists in the 'i18n' gem for Ruby that could allow cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2013-4491)\n\n - An error exists related to handling temporary files that could allow a local attacker to overwrite files by using a symlink attack. (CVE-2013-4969)\n\n - An error exists related to the included Ruby on Rails, 'Action View', and handling certain headers that could allow denial of service attacks. (CVE-2013-6414)\n\n - An input validation error exists related to the included Ruby on Rails and the 'unit' parameter in the 'number_to_currency' helper that could allow cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2013-6415)\n\n - An input validation error exists related to the included Ruby on Rails, JSON parameter parsing and SQL queries that could allow SQL injection attacks.\n (CVE-2013-6417)", "published": "2014-03-21T00:00:00", "cvss": {"score": 6.8, "vector": "AV:NETWORK/AC:MEDIUM/Au:NONE/C:PARTIAL/I:PARTIAL/A:PARTIAL/"}, "href": "https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=73132", "cvelist": ["CVE-2013-4491", "CVE-2013-4363", "CVE-2013-6417", "CVE-2013-4969", "CVE-2013-6415", "CVE-2013-6414", "CVE-2013-4164"], "lastseen": "2017-10-29T13:43:59"}], "seebug": [{"id": "SSV:61236", "type": "seebug", "title": "Puppet/Puppet Enterprise\u4e0d\u5b89\u5168\u4e34\u65f6\u6587\u4ef6\u7b26\u53f7\u94fe\u63a5\u653b\u51fb\u6f0f\u6d1e", "description": "CVE ID:CVE-2013-4969\r\n\r\npuppet\u662f\u4e00\u6b3eLinux\u3001Unix\u3001windows\u5e73\u53f0\u7684\u96c6\u4e2d\u914d\u7f6e\u7ba1\u7406\u7cfb\u7edf\u3002\r\n\r\nPuppet\u548cPuppet Enterprise\u4f7f\u7528\u4e0d\u5b89\u5168\u7684\u4e34\u65f6\u6587\u4ef6\uff0c\u5141\u8bb8\u672c\u5730\u653b\u51fb\u8005\u4f7f\u7528\u7b26\u53f7\u94fe\u63a5\u653b\u51fb\u8986\u76d6\u7cfb\u7edf\u4efb\u610f\u6587\u4ef6\u3002\n0\nPuppet 3.3.2\r\nPuppet 3.4.0\r\nPuppet 2.8.3\r\nPuppet 3.1.0\npuppet 2.8.4\u548c3.1.1\uff0c puppet 3.3.3\u548c3.4.1\u5df2\u7ecf\u4fee\u590d\u8be5\u6f0f\u6d1e\uff0c\u5efa\u8bae\u7528\u6237\u4e0b\u8f7d\u66f4\u65b0\uff1a\r\n\r\nhttp://puppetlabs.com/", "published": "2013-12-30T00:00:00", "cvss": {"score": 2.1, "vector": "AV:LOCAL/AC:LOW/Au:NONE/C:NONE/I:PARTIAL/A:NONE/"}, "href": "https://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-61236", "cvelist": ["CVE-2013-4969"], "lastseen": "2017-11-19T17:37:21"}], "amazon": [{"id": "ALAS-2014-288", "type": "amazon", "title": "Low: puppet", "description": "**Issue Overview:**\n\nPuppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.\n\n \n**Affected Packages:** \n\n\npuppet\n\n \n**Issue Correction:** \nRun _yum update puppet_ to update your system. \n\n \n**New Packages:**\n \n \n i686: \n puppet-2.7.25-1.2.amzn1.i686 \n puppet-server-2.7.25-1.2.amzn1.i686 \n puppet-debuginfo-2.7.25-1.2.amzn1.i686 \n \n src: \n puppet-2.7.25-1.2.amzn1.src \n \n x86_64: \n puppet-debuginfo-2.7.25-1.2.amzn1.x86_64 \n puppet-2.7.25-1.2.amzn1.x86_64 \n puppet-server-2.7.25-1.2.amzn1.x86_64 \n \n \n", "published": "2014-02-03T15:28:00", "cvss": {"score": 2.1, "vector": "AV:LOCAL/AC:LOW/Au:NONE/C:NONE/I:PARTIAL/A:NONE/"}, "href": "https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-288.html", "cvelist": ["CVE-2013-4969"], "lastseen": "2016-09-28T21:04:03"}], "debian": [{"id": "DSA-2831", "type": "debian", "title": "puppet -- insecure temporary files", "description": "An unsafe use of temporary files was discovered in Puppet, a tool for centralized configuration management. 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