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Fedora 43 ansible-collection-ansible-posix Critical Fix for CVE-2026-11837

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2026
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This alerts about critical update in Fedora 43 for ansible-collection-ansible-posix, addressing privilege escalation risks effectively.
Update to 2.2.1

Summary

Ansible Collection targeting POSIX and POSIX-ish platforms.

Update Information:

Update to 2.2.1. Fixes rhbz#2479556. Mitigates CVE-2026-11837 (rhbz#2487430, rhbz#2487431, rhbz#2487432)

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security advisory fedora update critical privilege escalation ansible-collection-ansible-posix

Change Log

* Wed Jul 8 2026 Maxwell G - 2.2.1-1 - Update to 2.2.1. Fixes rhbz#2479556. - Mitigates CVE-2026-11837 (rhbz#2487430, rhbz#2487431, rhbz#2487432) * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.1.0-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.1.0-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2479556 - ansible-collection-ansible-posix-2.2.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479556 [ 2 ] Bug #2487430 - CVE-2026-11837 ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key: local privilege escalation via symlink-following chown [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487430 [ 3 ] Bug #2487431 - CVE-2026-11837 ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key: local privilege escalation via symlink-following chown [fedora-44] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487431

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-50e5126be4' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: ansible-collection-ansible-posix
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 2.2.1
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ansible/posix
Summary: Ansible Collection targeting POSIX and POSIX-ish platforms

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical privilege escalation ansible-collection-ansible-posix

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