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CVE-2012-1987

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CVE-2012-1987

Published: May 29, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

puppet-rest-dos(74795)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
USN-1419-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
FEDORA-2012-5999
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
openSUSE-SU-2012:0608
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
48743
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
FEDORA-2012-6055
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2012-6674
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
49136
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
81308
vdb-entry
x_refsource_OSVDB
52975
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
48748
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
DSA-2451
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
openSUSE-SU-2012:0835
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
48789
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA

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