MGASA-2019-0023 - Updated ansible package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0023.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-16876

It was found that when a retry task in ansible run with -vvv fails, it
will log the raw return code, stdout and stderr from ssh which could
have contained sensitive data (CVE-2018-16876).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24065
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZDHLHZ5V5K5AKBTGPLGFTPK3YNSOC4FY/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16876

SRPMS:
- 6/core/ansible-2.4.6.0-1.2.mga6

Mageia 2019-0023: ansible security update

It was found that when a retry task in ansible run with -vvv fails, it will log the raw return code, stdout and stderr from ssh which could have contained sensitive data (CVE-2018-...

Summary

It was found that when a retry task in ansible run with -vvv fails, it will log the raw return code, stdout and stderr from ssh which could have contained sensitive data (CVE-2018-16876).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24065

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZDHLHZ5V5K5AKBTGPLGFTPK3YNSOC4FY/

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16876

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0023 - Updated ansible package fixes security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/ansible-2.4.6.0-1.2.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 08 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0023.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-16876

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