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GSD-2021-27025

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2021-12-02 00:00
Details
A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition prior to the first 'pluginsync'.
Aliases

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      "https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27025.html",
      "https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-27025",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1708",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4866",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4867",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8846",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8862"
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