gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201710-12.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201710-12">
  <title>Puppet Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet Agent, the worst
    of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">puppetagent</product>
  <announced>2017-10-13</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-10-13</revised>
  <bug>597684</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/puppet-agent" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>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.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet Agent. Please
      review the references for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Puppet Agent users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/puppet-agent-1.7.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5714">
      CVE-2016-5714
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016">Puppet
      Security Advise Oct 2016
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-08T20:07:35Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-13T23:32:46Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>