ADVISORIES

• CVE-2011-3869 (NVD)
• GHSA-8c56-v25w-f89c
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

puppet

PATCHED VERSIONS

• ~> 2.6.11
• >= 2.7.5

DESCRIPTION

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .k5login file.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3869
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3869
• http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/2775c21ae48e189950dbea5e7b4d1d9fa2aca41c
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/7d4c169df84fc7bbeb2941bf995a63470f71bdbd
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068053.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068061.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068093.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-2
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8c56-v25w-f89c