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Red Hat OpenStack 10.0 RHSA-2017:0195-01 Critical: Ansible Input Flaw

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2017
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Crucial ansible enhancement for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 tackling severe input validation vulnerabilities.
An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)

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

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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: ansible (2.2.1.0). (BZ#1412370)
Security Fix(es):
* An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible-server privileges. (CVE-2016-9587)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue input validation Red Hat OpenStack Ansible

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9587 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:
Source: ansible-2.2.1.0-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.2.1.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0195-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0195.html
Issue date: 2017-01-25

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0(Newton).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue input validation Red Hat OpenStack Ansible

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1404378 - CVE-2016-9587 Ansible: Compromised remote hosts can lead to running commands on the Ansible controller

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