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CVE-2012-1987

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-04-10	puppet -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2012-1987 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-1987
Phase	Assigned(20120402)

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.

References

Source	Reference
MISC	http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552
MISC	http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553
CONFIRM	http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15
CONFIRM	http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/
CONFIRM	http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/
DEBIAN	DSA-2451
FEDORA	FEDORA-2012-5999
FEDORA	FEDORA-2012-6055
FEDORA	FEDORA-2012-6674
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0608
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0835
UBUNTU	USN-1419-1
BID	52975
OSVDB	81308
SECUNIA	48743
SECUNIA	48748
SECUNIA	48789
SECUNIA	49136
XF	puppet-rest-dos(74795)