Upstream information

CVE-2012-1987 at MITRE

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.5
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 755870 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

  • SUSE-SU-2012:0771-1, published Wed Jun 20 14:08:26 MDT 2012
  • openSUSE-SU-2012:0608-1 openSUSE-SU-2012:0835-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • puppet >= 2.6.18-0.4.2
  • puppet-server >= 2.6.18-0.4.2
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA puppet-2.6.18-0.4.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • puppet >= 2.7.26-0.5.1
  • puppet-server >= 2.7.26-0.5.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA puppet-2.7.26-0.5.1


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2 puppet Released
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for SAP Enterprise Search puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS puppet Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 puppet Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 puppet Released


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 08:34:42 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:05:30 2023