- Issued:
- 2020-01-23
- Updated:
- 2020-01-23
RHSA-2020:0217 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Moderate: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.7.16)
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7
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 (2.7.16)
Bug Fix(es):
- CVE-2019-14904 Ansible: vulnerability in solaris_zone module via crafted solaris zone
- CVE-2019-14905 Ansible: malicious code could craft filename in nxos_file_copy module
See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.7.16/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.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:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 x86_64
- Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 ppc64le
Fixes
- BZ - 1776943 - CVE-2019-14905 Ansible: malicious code could craft filename in nxos_file_copy module
- BZ - 1776944 - CVE-2019-14904 Ansible: vulnerability in solaris_zone module via crafted solaris zone
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7
SRPM | |
---|---|
ansible-2.7.16-1.el7ae.src.rpm | SHA-256: aa11771378070e9a788a9d20deccfeb828661bde7fe7d4625d12d93ebc7e7e8b |
x86_64 | |
ansible-2.7.16-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 306e02aa66e68cbd057f1e769745cec69854aa529963e9713143152f8decbf15 |
ppc64le | |
ansible-2.7.16-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 306e02aa66e68cbd057f1e769745cec69854aa529963e9713143152f8decbf15 |
ansible-2.7.16-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 306e02aa66e68cbd057f1e769745cec69854aa529963e9713143152f8decbf15 |
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