National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1987

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

Impact

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External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0835

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0608

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305

External Source: XF

Name: puppet-rest-dos(74795)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74794

External Source: BID

Name: 52975

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 81308

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/81308

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2451

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1419-1

Hyperlink:http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49136

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49136

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48789

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48789

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48748

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48748

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48743

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48743

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/

Hyperlink:http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: MISC

Name: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553

External Source: MISC

Name: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-6674

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-6055

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-5999

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html