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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201710-12
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: Puppet Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities
     Date: October 13, 2017
     Bugs: #597684
       ID: 201710-12

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet Agent, the worst of
which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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

Affected packages
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     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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  1  app-admin/puppet-agent       < 1.7.1                    >= 1.7.1 

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet Agent. Please
review the references for details.

Impact
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A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Puppet Agent users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/puppet-agent-1.7.1"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2016-5714
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5714
[ 2 ] Puppet Security Advise Oct 2016
      https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2017 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5