USN-3308-1: Puppet vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3308-1

5th June, 2017

puppet vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Puppet.

Software description

• puppet
  - Centralized configuration management
  
  

Details

Dennis Rowe discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled the search path. A
local attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code.
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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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CVE-2017-2295