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Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 RHSA-2018:3461 Moderate Information Leak

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.5

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 (2.5.11)
Security fix(es):
* ansible: Information leak in "user" module (CVE-2018-16837)
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.
Red Hat would like to thank Markus Teufelberger (mgIT Consulting) for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat information leak update security fix Ansible Engine

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16837 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.5.11-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.5.11-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm ansible-doc-2.5.11-1.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-2018:3461-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461
Issue date: 2018-11-05

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat information leak update security fix Ansible Engine

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1640642 - CVE-2018-16837 Ansible: Information leak in "user" module

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