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TITLE:
Gentoo update for puppet

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50269

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-08-15

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DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for puppet. This fixes multiple security
issues and two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious,
local users to disclose potentially sensitive information and perform
certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious users to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA48743

SOLUTION:
Update to "app-admin/puppet-2.7.13" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GLSA 201208-02:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201208-02.xml

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