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Fedora 26: Ansible 2.3.1 Critical Update: CVE-2017-7481 Threat

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update to Ansible 2.3.1 resolves issues and mitigates CVE-2017-7481 in Fedora 26 for enhanced security.
Update to 2.3.1, with various bugfixes and fix for CVE-2017-7481

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 to 2.3.1, with various bugfixes and fix for CVE-2017-7481. Full changes

available at: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.3/CHANGELOG.md

[ 1 ] Bug #1450279 - CVE-2017-7481 ansible: Security issue with lookup return not tainting the jinja2 environment [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450279

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.3.1.0
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system

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