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Red Hat Virtualization 4.1: RHSA-2018-1452 Low: Password Log Exposure

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2018
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A patch for Red Hat's ovirt-ansible-roles resolves issues of password exposure in logs, classified with a low severity rating.
An update for ovirt-ansible-roles is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.1

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

The ovirt-ansible-roles package contains Ansible roles which automate common Red Hat Virtualization administration tasks.
Security Fix(es):
* ovirt-ansible-roles: passwords revealed in ansible log when provisioning new provider (CVE-2018-1117)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat security fix low severity password leak ovirt-ansible-roles

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1117 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.1:
Source: ovirt-ansible-roles-1.0.6-1.el7ev.src.rpm
noarch: ovirt-ansible-roles-1.0.6-1.el7ev.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-2018:1452-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1452
Issue date: 2018-05-15

Topic

An update for ovirt-ansible-roles is now available for Red HatVirtualization Engine 4.1.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat security fix low severity password leak ovirt-ansible-roles

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.1 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1574776 - CVE-2018-1117 ovirt-ansible-roles: passwords revealed in ansible log when provisioning new provider

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