[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: puppet-2.6.16-1.el5

updates at fedoraproject.org updates at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 2 20:33:41 UTC 2012


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-5577
2012-04-16 17:21:47
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name        : puppet
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 2.6.16
Release     : 1.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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:

This update fixes several security issues recently found in puppet related to filebucket functionality.  For full details, refer to the upstream release notes:

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #810069 - CVE-2012-1986 puppet: Filebucket arbitrary file read
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810069
  [ 2 ] Bug #810070 - CVE-2012-1987 puppet: Filebucket denial of service
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810070
  [ 3 ] Bug #810071 - CVE-2012-1988 puppet: Filebucket arbitrary code execution
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810071
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


More information about the epel-package-announce mailing list