USN-3567-1

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled permissions when unpacking certain tarballs. A local user could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / puppet

Package

Name: puppet
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/puppet@3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3

Affected versions

3.*

3.2.4-2ubuntu2

3.3.1-1ubuntu1

3.3.1-1ubuntu2

3.3.1-1ubuntu3

3.4.2-1

3.4.3-1

3.4.3-1ubuntu1

3.4.3-1ubuntu1.1

3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "puppet",
            "binary_version": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "puppet-common",
            "binary_version": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "puppet-el",
            "binary_version": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "puppet-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "puppetmaster",
            "binary_version": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "puppetmaster-common",
            "binary_version": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "puppetmaster-passenger",
            "binary_version": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-puppet",
            "binary_version": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3"
        }
    ]
}