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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-10897 (puppet)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: puppet-2.6.17-2.fc16
Date:  Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:17:34 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120728011734.A65602162C@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-10897 2012-07-20 01:26:53 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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_No... NetworkManager compatibility should be improved in this release, thanks to Orion Poplawski (any bugs in implementing Orion's suggested dispatcher script are my own). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jul 19 2012 Todd Zullinger <tmz@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@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@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@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@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@pobox.com> - 2.6.13-2 - Revert to minimal patch for augeas >= 0.10 (bz#771097) * Wed Dec 14 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz@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@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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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