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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for puppet (ALAS-2014-288) (CVE-2013-4969)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for puppet (ALAS-2014-288) (CVE-2013-4969)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/07/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

Solution(s)

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

References

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