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puppet: two privilege escalations

Package(s):puppet CVE #(s):CVE-2012-1053 CVE-2012-1054
Created:February 23, 2012 Updated:July 4, 2012
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that Puppet did not drop privileges when executing commands as different users. If an attacker had control of the execution manifests or the executed command, this could be used to execute code with elevated group permissions (typically root). (CVE-2012-1053)

It was discovered that Puppet unsafely opened files when the k5login type is used to manage files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files and escalate privileges. (CVE-2012-1054)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1372-1 2012-02-23
Debian DSA-2419-1 2012-02-27
Gentoo 201203-03 2012-03-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0325-1 2012-03-06
Fedora FEDORA-2012-2415 2012-03-10
Fedora FEDORA-2012-2367 2012-03-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0835-1 2012-07-04

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