RedHat: RHSA-2018-2166:01 Moderate: ansible security and bug fix update
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 (2.6.1)
Security fix(es):
* ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory
when running ad-hoc command that can lead to code execution
(CVE-2018-10874)
* ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory
allowing possible code execution (CVE-2018-10875)
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.
This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer
(OSAS).
Bug Fix(es):
* Fix junos_config confirm commit timeout issue
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)
* file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the
2.6.x development cycle. The patch to fix that broke check mode. This is
now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)
* inventory manager - This fixes required options being populated before
the inventory config file is read, so the required options may be set in
the config file.
* nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209
* win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536
* win_group_membership - uses the internal Ansible SID conversion logic and
uses that when comparing group membership instead of the name
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40649
Summary
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
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10874 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10875 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Package List
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source:
ansible-2.6.1-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch:
ansible-2.6.1-1.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/
Topic
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.6.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.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch
Bugs Fixed
1596528 - CVE-2018-10874 ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that can lead to code execution
1596533 - CVE-2018-10875 ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution
