CVE-2011-3869 Information

Description

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5 2.6.x before 2.6.11 and 0.25.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .k5login file.

Reference

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068053.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068061.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068093.html http://secunia.com/advisories/46458 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-2 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3869