[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: puppet-2.6.17-2.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-6441
2012-07-19 21:59:24
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Name        : puppet
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 2.6.17
Release     : 2.el5
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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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 programs.  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 EPEL 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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