FreeBSD: salt -- code execution (CVE-2016-1866)
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
01/25/2016
07/25/2018
02/04/2016
10/30/2017
Description
Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream.
Solution(s)
- freebsd-upgrade-package-py27-salt
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