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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:38:30 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Moses Mendoza <moses@...petlabs.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Fwd: New Security Vulnerabilities in Puppet

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On 07/11/2012 12:04 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 10:37 AM, Moses Mendoza wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Vulnerability 5 Agents with certnames of IP addresses can be 
>>>> impersonated (low) *Affected Versions: 2.7.x, 2.6.x If an 
>>>> authenticated host with a certname of an IP address changes
>>>> IP addresses, and a second host assumes the first host's
>>>> former IP address, the second host will be treated by the
>>>> puppet master as the first one, giving the second host access
>>>> to the first host's catalog. Note: This will not be fixed in
>>>> Puppet versions prior to the forthcoming 3.x. Instead, with
>>>> this announcement IP-based authentication in Puppet < 3.x is 
>>>> deprecated.
> 
> After some further communications with them it has been decided to 
> assign this issue a CVE. Please use CVE-2012-3408 for this issue.
> 
> Moses: can you confirm that a CVE page with links to the code 
> commits/etc will be created? Thanks.

Excellent: http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3408/

Thanks!


- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993



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