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Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 RHSA-2018:2022-01 Moderate Security Fix

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2018
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A significant revision for Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 introduces security improvements and resolves various bugs to bolster system integrity.
An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 for RHEL 7

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 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 (2.4.5)
Security fix(es):
* ansible: Ansible through version 2.5 does not properly honour the no_log option with failed task iterations. When a list of secret items is supplied to a task and a task iteration fails, secrets can be disclosed in logs despite the no_log option being enabled. (CVE-2018-10855)
Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Henkel (BMW Car IT GmbH) for reporting these issues.
Bug Fix(es):
* Fixed win_copy to preserve the global Ansible local tmp path instead of deleting it when dealing with multiple files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37964)
* Fixed Windows setup.ps1 for slow performance in large domain environments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38646)
* Fixed eos_logging idempotency issue when trying to set both logging destination & facility (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40604)
* Fixed ios_logging idempotency issue when trying to set both logging destination & facility (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41076)
See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.4.5.0-1/CHANGELOG.md for details on this release.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat bug fix security fix configuration management ansible

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10855 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.4.5.0-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.4.5.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm ansible-doc-2.4.5.0-1.el7ae.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/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2022-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2022
Issue date: 2018-06-26

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 forRHEL 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. 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 moderate red hat bug fix security fix configuration management ansible

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1588855 - CVE-2018-10855 ansible: Failed tasks do not honour no_log option allowing for secrets to be disclosed in logs

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