CVE-2012-1987 - Rattled Bull Terrier

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/ http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 http://www.osvdb.org/81308 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/48743 http://secunia.com/advisories/48789 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/ http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553 http://secunia.com/advisories/48748 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 http://secunia.com/advisories/49136 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794