CVE - CVE-2012-1987

CVE-ID
CVE-2012-1987	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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
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BID:52975 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 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 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 FEDORA:FEDORA-2012-5999 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2012-6055 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2012-6674 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html MISC:http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552 MISC:http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553 OSVDB:81308 URL:~~http://www.osvdb.org/81308~~ (Obsolete source) SECUNIA:48743 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/48743 SECUNIA:48748 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/48748 SECUNIA:48789 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/48789 SECUNIA:49136 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/49136 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2012:0608 URL:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2012:0835 URL:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 UBUNTU:USN-1419-1 URL:http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1 XF:puppet-rest-dos(74795) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20120402	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20120402)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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