CVE-2012-3408

Publication date 6 August 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

lib/puppet/network/authstore.rb in Puppet before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, supports use of IP addresses in certnames without warning of potential risks, which might allow remote attackers to spoof an agent by acquiring a previously used IP address.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
puppet 12.04 LTS precise Ignored
11.10 oneiric Ignored
11.04 natty Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

This would break existing installations. This will be fixed in upstream 3.0. For 2.7, USN-1506-1 added a deprecation warning. Since this change would break existing installations, we will not fix this in Ubuntu.