Advisories » MGASA-2018-0199

Updated puppet packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Apr 2018
Modification date: 13 Apr 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-10689

Description

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled permissions when
unpacking certain tarballs. A local user could possibly use this issue
to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2017-10689).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22589
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3567-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10689

SRPMS

6/core

• puppet-4.2.1-4.4.mga6

5/core

• puppet-3.6.2-3.3.mga5