suse · CVE-2012-1987

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:03:17 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 19:50:53 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-1987 severity moderate: SUSE including 7 source package names (puppet-2.6.12-0.14.1, puppet-2.6.18-0.4.2, …), 7 product×package rows across 3 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-TERADATA, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4): Fixed 7.

Description:

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

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