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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3871 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2021-10-14
Updated:
2021-10-14

RHSA-2021:3871 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.27)

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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 Ansible Engine 2.9

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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 (2.9.27)

Bug Fix(es):

  • CVE-2021-3620 Ansible: ansible-connection module discloses sensitive info

in traceback error message

See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.27/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

  • BZ - 1975767 - CVE-2021-3620 Ansible: ansible-connection module discloses sensitive info in traceback error message

CVEs

  • CVE-2021-3620

References

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

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8

SRPM
ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.src.rpm SHA-256: 2ec789860f93223b2aec87d14da59f2e8470bde161185d30a52f2270623e6145
x86_64
ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: af017f523bf816179c5e9de9df7dad22a277531b7741d78871530f45b8288436
ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0569bacda442ac006b276204c76571e4b786def1d99d195680db98e135d2fc8c
s390x
ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: af017f523bf816179c5e9de9df7dad22a277531b7741d78871530f45b8288436
ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0569bacda442ac006b276204c76571e4b786def1d99d195680db98e135d2fc8c
ppc64le
ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: af017f523bf816179c5e9de9df7dad22a277531b7741d78871530f45b8288436
ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0569bacda442ac006b276204c76571e4b786def1d99d195680db98e135d2fc8c
aarch64
ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: af017f523bf816179c5e9de9df7dad22a277531b7741d78871530f45b8288436
ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0569bacda442ac006b276204c76571e4b786def1d99d195680db98e135d2fc8c

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7

SRPM
ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae.src.rpm SHA-256: 860f41f30b6c78572a456f571ef22b494ad3cbd7c8acebd8c620653dc0c33075
x86_64
ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: ebb162b7ed81a73350704888e8fb9ee334055d6bf9bfcdb01af031ef8f8e1ac3
ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e80bb734d6dc7de7d05d842d7eb9a4585ce2d455eb1339a01c6120ee3dc0fa8e
s390x
ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: ebb162b7ed81a73350704888e8fb9ee334055d6bf9bfcdb01af031ef8f8e1ac3
ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e80bb734d6dc7de7d05d842d7eb9a4585ce2d455eb1339a01c6120ee3dc0fa8e
ppc64le
ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: ebb162b7ed81a73350704888e8fb9ee334055d6bf9bfcdb01af031ef8f8e1ac3
ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: ebb162b7ed81a73350704888e8fb9ee334055d6bf9bfcdb01af031ef8f8e1ac3
ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e80bb734d6dc7de7d05d842d7eb9a4585ce2d455eb1339a01c6120ee3dc0fa8e
ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e80bb734d6dc7de7d05d842d7eb9a4585ce2d455eb1339a01c6120ee3dc0fa8e

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

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