CVE-2016-1866

NameCVE-2016-1866
DescriptionSalt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
saltsourcejessie(not affected)
saltsource(unstable)2015.8.5+ds-1

Notes

[jessie] - salt <not-affected> (affects only the 2015.8.x releases of Salt)
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.5.html

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