CVE-2010-0156 Information

Description

Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex or (4) /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file.

Reference

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/38766 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502881 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156