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Red Hat Ansible 2.9.4 Moderate: RHSA-2020-0218-01 Security Update

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2 Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

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 (2.9.4)
Bug Fix(es): * CVE-2019-14904 Ansible: vulnerability in solaris_zone module via crafted solaris zone * CVE-2019-14905 Ansible: malicious code could craft filename in nxos_file_copy module
See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.4/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software update bug fix moderate impact Ansible

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14904 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14905 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7:
Source: ansible-2.9.4-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.9.4-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm ansible-test-2.9.4-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-2.9.4-1.el8ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.9.4-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm ansible-test-2.9.4-1.el8ae.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-2020:0218-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0218
Issue date: 2020-01-23

Topic

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software update bug fix moderate impact Ansible

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1776943 - CVE-2019-14905 Ansible: malicious code could craft filename in nxos_file_copy module

1776944 - CVE-2019-14904 Ansible: vulnerability in solaris_zone module via crafted solaris zone

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