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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for puppet (ALAS-2013-181) (CVE-2013-1640)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for puppet (ALAS-2013-181) (CVE-2013-1640)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/20/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The (1) template and (2) inline_template functions in the master server in Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted catalog request.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-puppet
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-puppet-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-puppet-server

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