CVE-2016-9686

Publication date

2017-02-08 22:00:00

Family

puppet

State

PUBLISHED

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.