CVE-2017-2296

Name	CVE-2017-2296
Description	In Puppet Enterprise 2017.1.x and 2017.2.1, using specially formatted strings with certain formatting characters as Classifier node group names or RBAC role display names causes errors, effectively causing a DOS to the service. This was resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2017.2.2.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
puppet (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	3.7.2-4+deb8u1	fixed
	stretch	4.8.2-5	fixed
	buster	5.5.10-4	fixed
	bullseye	5.5.22-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
puppet	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- puppet <not-affected> (Specific to Puppet Enterprise)