Upstream information

CVE-2013-4969 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 2.1 6.6
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local Local
Access Complexity Low Medium
Authentication None Single
Confidentiality Impact None Complete
Integrity Impact Partial Complete
Availability Impact None Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 856843 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3
  • puppet >= 2.6.18-0.16.1
 Patchnames:
sledsp3-puppet
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3
  • puppet >= 2.6.18-0.16.1
  • puppet-server >= 2.6.18-0.16.1
 Patchnames:
slessp3-puppet
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Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated.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.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS puppet Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 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 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 puppet Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Dec 27 13:44:30 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:03:39 2023