[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: puppet-2.6.6-3.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-13636
2011-10-01 23:39:09
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Name        : puppet
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.6.6
Release     : 3.fc15
URL         : http://puppetlabs.com
Summary     : A network tool for managing many disparate systems
Description :
Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using 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, and files.

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Update Information:

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed:

* CVE-2011-3870, a symlink attack via a user's SSH authorized_keys file  
* CVE-2011-3869, a symlink attack via a user's .k5login file  
* CVE-2011-3871, a privilege escalation attack via the temp file  used by the puppet resource application  
* A low-risk file indirector injection attack  

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement:

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb
A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application.  For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement:

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue.
A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application.  For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement:

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue.
A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application.  For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement:

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue.
A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application.  For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement:

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue.
A vulnerability was discovered in puppet that would allow an attacker to install a valid X509 Certificate Signing Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet Master application.  For Fedora and EPEL, this is the puppet user.

Further details can be found in the upstream announcement:

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406

Unless you enable puppet's listen mode on clients, only the puppet master is vulnerable to this issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Sep 29 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.6-3
- Apply upstream patches for CVE-2011-3869, CVE-2011-3870, CVE-2011-3871, and
  upstream #9793
* Tue Sep 27 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.6-2
- Apply upstream patch for CVE-2011-3848
* Wed Mar 16 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.6-1
- Update to 2.6.6
- Ensure %pre exits cleanly
- Fix License tag, puppet is now GPLv2 only
- Create and own /usr/share/puppet/modules (#615432)
- Properly restart puppet agent/master daemons on upgrades from 0.25.x
- Require libselinux-utils when selinux support is enabled
- Support tmpfiles.d for Fedora >= 15 (#656677)
- Apply a few upstream fixes for 0.25.5 regressions
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update puppet' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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