Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Affecting puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt package, versions <4.5.1-1
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-PUPPETMODULEPUPPETLABSAPT-1557843
- published9 Feb 2018
- disclosed9 Feb 2018
Introduced: 9 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-6508 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt to version 4.5.1-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt package and not the puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.3 are vulnerable to a remote execution bug when a specially crafted string was passed into the facter_task or puppet_conf tasks. This vulnerability only affects tasks in the affected modules, if you are not using puppet tasks you are not affected by this vulnerability.