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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1948 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2018-06-19
Updated:
2018-06-19

RHSA-2018:1948 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Moderate: ansible security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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 (2.5.5)

Security fix(es):

  • ansible: Ansible through version 2.5 does not properly honour the no_log option with failed task iterations. When a list of secret items is supplied to a task and a task iteration fails, secrets can be disclosed in logs despite the no_log option being enabled. (CVE-2018-10855)

Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Henkel (BMW Car IT GmbH) for
reporting these issues.

Bug Fix(es):

  • Changed the admin_users config option to not include "admin" by default

as admin is frequently used for a non-privileged account
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41164)

  • aws_s3 - add async support to the action plugin

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40826)

  • aws_s3 - fix decrypting vault files

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39634)

  • ec2_ami - cast the device_mapping volume size to an int

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40938)

  • eos_logging - fix idempotency issues

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40604)

  • cache plugins - a cache timeout of 0 means the cache will not expire.
  • ios_logging - fix idempotency issues

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41029)

  • ios/nxos/eos_config - don't retrieve config in running_config when config

is provided for diff (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41400)

  • nxos_banner - fix multiline banner issue

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41026).

  • nxos terminal plugin - fix output truncation

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40960)

  • nxos_l3_interface - fix no switchport issue with loopback and svi

interfaces (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37392).

  • nxos_snapshot - fix compare_option

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41386)

See
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.5.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.5.rst for details on 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 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1588855 - CVE-2018-10855 ansible: Failed tasks do not honour no_log option allowing for secrets to be disclosed in logs

CVEs

  • CVE-2018-10855

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7

SRPM
ansible-2.5.5-1.el7ae.src.rpm SHA-256: ae3348977f072a91b2e3f3452b14fcce1b8a5b640fb2c1a5e2a0642a8c7defc9
x86_64
ansible-2.5.5-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c65126ad9fc18552190bda5d8d39ecb73ae9859ae04b7588c3c33ba6be08e1d4
ansible-doc-2.5.5-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: bb3a5ee7465f74ae097c608f26b470263e0fadf76a882612a8e7033481c4594d

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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