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CVE-2016-9686

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CVE-2016-9686

Published: Feb 8, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The Puppet Communications Protocol (PCP) Broker incorrectly validates message header sizes. An attacker could use this to crash the PCP Broker, preventing commands from being sent to agents. This is resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.3 and 2016.5.2.

VendorProductVersions

Puppet

Puppet Enterprise

affected
2015.3.x
affected
2016.x prior to 2016.4.3
affected
2016.5.1.

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