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CVE-2012-1906

Description

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](<https://launchpad.net/~tyhicks>) | Yama mitigates this Despite these being OS X package providers, we do ship them so they will get patched


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 10.04 puppet 0.25.4-2ubuntu6.7
ubuntu 11.04 puppet 2.6.4-2ubuntu2.9
ubuntu 11.10 puppet 2.7.1-1ubuntu3.6
ubuntu upstream puppet any

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