Facter 1.7.6 is a security fix release in the Facter 1.7 series. The Facter 1.7 series was incorrectly omitted from the original security announcement for Facter. This release addresses CVE-2014-3248. It has no other bug fixes or new features. All users of Facter 1.7.5 and earlier are encouraged to update to 1.7.6.
** CVE-2014-3248 ** Arbitrary Code Execution with Required Social Engineering An attacker could convince an administrator to unknowingly create and execute malicious code on platforms with Ruby 1.9.1 and earlier. CVSSv2 Score: 5.2 Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C Affected Facter versions (ruby 1.9.1 and earlier only): 2.x 1.7.x 1.6.x Fixed Facter versions: 1.7.6, 2.0.2 See the Release Notes here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/1.7/release_notes.html#facter-176 For more information on this vulnerability, please visit https://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248 To report issues with the release, file a ticket in the "FACT" project on http://tickets.puppetlabs.com/ and set the "Affects version/s" field to "1.7.6" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAHEe_kqvHD-rq-sTEFqA%2BnUmqfMSru97aH2GbGVOxRV9coLN0w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
