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RedHat: RHSA-2018-3838-01 Low: Ansible Engine Information Disclosure

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ansible Engine version 2 refinement targets minor vulnerabilities, reinforcing security standards via patches and optimizations.
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, 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 (2.7.5)
Security fix(es):
* ansible: information disclosure in vvv+ mode with no_log on (CVE-2018-16876)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.7.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat bug fix low severity security impact information disclosure ansible

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16876 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7:
Source: ansible-2.7.5-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.7.5-1.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3838-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3838
Issue date: 2018-12-18

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat bug fix low severity security impact information disclosure ansible

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1657330 - CVE-2018-16876 ansible: Information disclosure in vvv+ mode with no_log on

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