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Moderate Security Update for Ansible 2.2.1 on Fedora 24 Released

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2017
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Fedora 24 has rolled out Ansible 2.2.1, addressing serious vulnerabilities and implementing vital corrections. Discover the improvements.
Update to ansible 2.2.1

Summary

Ansible is a radically 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.

Update Information:

Update to ansible 2.2.1. Fixes several CVEs as well as a number of other bugfixes. See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.md for full changes.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1412357 - CVE-2016-9587 Ansible: Compromised remote hosts can lead to running commands on the Ansible controller [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412357 [ 2 ] Bug #1396176 - CVE-2016-8647 Ansible: in some circumstances the mysql_user module may fail to correctly change a password [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1396176

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade ansible' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: ansible
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.2.1.0
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.redhat.com/en/ansible-collaborative
Summary: SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system

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