CVE-2012-1906

2012-04-1100:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

3.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise
(PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 uses predictable
file names when installing Mac OS X packages from a remote source, which
allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or install arbitrary
packages via a symlink attack on a temporary file in /tmp.

Bugs

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978708>

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	Yama mitigates this Despite these being OS X package providers, we do ship them so they will get patched

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu10.04noarchpuppet< 0.25.4-2ubuntu6.7UNKNOWN
ubuntu11.04noarchpuppet< 2.6.4-2ubuntu2.9UNKNOWN
ubuntu11.10noarchpuppet< 2.7.1-1ubuntu3.6UNKNOWN