RHBA-2020:0784 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Ansible 2.9.6 release for Ansible Engine 2.9

Description

Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node
deployment, and remote-task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and
does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes.
Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to
managed machines automatically.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:
ansible (2.9.6)

Bug Fix(es):

See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.6/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

CVEs

• CVE-2020-10729

References

(none)