[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: puppet-2.6.17-2.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-10897
2012-07-20 01:26:53
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Name        : puppet
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.6.17
Release     : 2.fc16
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:

This is an upstream security release.  It addresses a number of issues found in puppet-2.6.x.  The Red Hat security team has rated this update as having low security impact.

Refer to the upstream release notes and bugzilla entries for further details.

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.17

NetworkManager compatibility should be improved in this release, thanks to Orion Poplawski (any bugs in implementing Orion's suggested dispatcher script are my own).
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 19 2012 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.17-2
- Corrected CVE list, 2.6 is not affected by CVE-2012-3866
* Wed Jul 11 2012 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.17-1
- Update to 2.6.17, fixes CVE-2012-3864, CVE-2012-3865, CVE-2012-3867
- Improve NetworkManager compatibility, thanks to Orion Poplawski (#532085)
- Preserve timestamps when installing files
* Wed Apr 11 2012 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.16-1
- Update to 2.6.16, fixes CVE-2012-1986, CVE-2012-1987, and CVE-2012-1988
- Correct permissions of /var/log/puppet (0750)
* Wed Feb 22 2012 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.14-1
- Update to 2.6.14, fixes CVE-2012-1053 and CVE-2012-1054
* Mon Feb 13 2012 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.13-3
- Move rpmlint fixes to %prep, add a few additional fixes
- Bump minimum ruby version to 1.8.5 now that EL-4 is all but dead
- Update install locations for Fedora-17 / Ruby-1.9
- Use ruby($lib) for augeas and shadow requirements
- Only try to run 0.25.x -> 2.6.x pid file updates on EL
* Thu Jan  5 2012 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.13-2
- Revert to minimal patch for augeas >= 0.10 (bz#771097)
* Wed Dec 14 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.13-1
- Update to 2.6.13
- Cherry-pick various augeas fixes from upstream (bz#771097)
* Sun Oct 23 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 2.6.12-1
- Update to 2.6.12, fixes CVE-2011-3872
- Add upstream patch to restore Mongrel XMLRPC functionality (upstream #10244)
- Apply partial fix for upstream #9167 (tagmail report sends email when nothing
  happens)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #839130 - CVE-2012-3864 puppet: authenticated clients allowed to read arbitrary files from the puppet master
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130
  [ 2 ] Bug #839131 - CVE-2012-3865 puppet: authenticated clients allowed to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839131
  [ 3 ] Bug #839158 - CVE-2012-3867 puppet: insufficient validation of agent names in CN of SSL certificate requests
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839158
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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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