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RedHat: RHSA-2019-3201-01 Urgent Ansible Security Update - Essential Fix

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2019
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Crucial Ansible security patch released for Red Hat products classified as critical. Examine the specifics regarding the most recent security flaws.
An update is now available for Ansible Engine 2.6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important

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 (2.6.20)
Bug Fix(es): * ansible: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10206 (CVE-2019-14856) * ansible: sub parameters marked as no_log are not masked in certain failure scenarios (CVE-2019-14858) * ansible: secrets disclosed on logs when no_log enabled (CVE-2019-14846)
See: st for details on bug fixes in this release.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update patch important Ansible

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14846 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14856 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14858 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.6.20/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.rst

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.6.20-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.6.20-1.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-2019:3201-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3201
Issue date: 2019-10-24

Topic

An update is now available for Ansible Engine 2.6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 Red Hat update patch important Ansible

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1755373 - CVE-2019-14846 ansible: secrets disclosed on logs when no_log enabled

1760593 - CVE-2019-14858 ansible: sub parameters marked as no_log are not masked in certain failure scenarios

1760829 - CVE-2019-14856 ansible: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10206

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