CVE-2012-1054 - Irenic Tumble

Description

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0 1.1 1.2.x 2.0.x before 2.0.3 when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login.

Reference

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12460 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1054/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52158 http://www.osvdb.org/79496 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.14 http://secunia.com/advisories/48161 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2419 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48290 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1372-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/48166 http://secunia.com/advisories/48157 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73446