CVE-2016-9686

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 8, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Nov 30, 2016

Description

The Puppet Communications Protocol (PCP) Broker incorrectly validates message header sizes. An attacker could use this to crash the PCP Broker, preventing commands from being sent to agents. This is resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.3 and 2016.5.2.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Puppet EnterprisePuppet	2015.3.xAffected 2016.x prior to 2016.4.3Affected 2016.5.1.Affected

References

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9686

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