Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet Server and Agent, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Announced

2016-06-05

Revised

2016-06-05 (revision 3)

Access

remote

Bugs

#577450 #581372

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
app-admin/puppet-agent	*	< 1.4.2	>= 1.4.2
app-admin/puppetserver	*	< 2.3.2	>= 2.3.2

Background

Puppet Agent contains Puppet’s main code and all of the dependencies needed to run it, including Facter, Hiera, and bundled versions of Ruby and OpenSSL.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet Server and Agent. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Remote attackers, impersonating a trusted broker, could potentially execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Puppet Agent users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/puppet-agent-1.4.2"

All Puppet Server users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/puppetserver-2.3.2"

References

• CVE-2016-2785
• CVE-2016-2786