Home / vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1223-1
Posted on 02 October 2011
Source : packetstormsecurity.org Link
Ubuntu Security Notice 1223-1 - It was discovered that Puppet unsafely opened files when the k5login type is used to manage files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files which could be used to escalate privileges. Ricky Zhou discovered that Puppet did not drop privileges when creating SSH authorized_keys files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files as root. It was discovered that Puppet used a predictable filename when using the --edit resource. A local attacker could exploit this to edit arbitrary files or run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program, typically root. Various other issues were also addressed.
