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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: puppet

Published: 2017-02-08T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:03.352Z

Reserved: 2016-11-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9686

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-02-08T22:59:00.730

Modified: 2019-07-10T15:40:36.237

Link: CVE-2016-9686

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