[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: puppet-2.6.18-2.el6

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-0720
2013-03-21 16:52:51
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Name        : puppet
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 2.6.18
Release     : 2.el6
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:

Updates to EPEL for Puppet 2.6 for security issues disclosed 13-MAR-2013 from Puppet Labs:

https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/t/9200f268f8479e2c

This update also includes a backported patch to fix a for service resource race condition.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #919770 - CVE-2013-1654 Puppet: SSL protocol downgrade
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919770
  [ 2 ] Bug #919773 - CVE-2013-2274 Puppet: HTTP PUT report saving code execution vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919773
  [ 3 ] Bug #919783 - CVE-2013-1640 Puppet: catalog request code execution
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919783
  [ 4 ] Bug #919784 - CVE-2013-1652 Puppet: HTTP GET request catalog retrieval
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919784
  [ 5 ] Bug #919785 - CVE-2013-2275 Puppet: default auth.conf allows authenticated node to submit a report for any other node
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919785
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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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