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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 RHSA-2023:4971 Moderate: Issues Fix

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Calendar Grey September 5, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautionary update released for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 focusing on vulnerabilities related to memory corruption and GitPython functionality.
An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Summary

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language.
Security Fix(es): * automation-controller: cryptography: memory corruption via immutable objects (CVE-2023-23931) * automation-controller: GitPython: Insecure non-multi options in clone and clone_from is not blocked (CVE-2023-40267) * python3-gitpython/python39-gitpython: Insecure non-multi options in clone and clone_from is not blocked (CVE-2023-40267)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional changes: * ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.3 (AAP-15269) * automation-controller has been updated to 4.4.3 (AAP-15549) * python3-gitpython/python39-gitpython has been updated to 3.1.21 (AAP-15485) * automation controller: Fix bug that can cause a deadlock on shutdown when redis is unavailable. (AAP-14203) * automation controller: The login form no longer supports autocomplete on the password field due to security concerns. (AAP-15545)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-23931 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40267 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-core-2.15.3-1.el8ap.src.rpm automation-controller-4.4.3-1.el8ap.src.rpm python3x-gitpython-3.1.32-1.el8ap.src.rpm
aarch64: automation-controller-4.4.3-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.3-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
noarch: ansible-core-2.15.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm ansible-test-2.15.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm automation-controller-cli-4.4.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm automation-controller-server-4.4.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm automation-controller-ui-4.4.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm python39-gitpython-3.1.32-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: automation-controller-4.4.3-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.3-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: automation-controller-4.4.3-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.3-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
x86_64: automation-controller-4.4.3-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.3-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-core-2.15.3-1.el8ap.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-core-2.15.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-core-2.15.3-1.el8ap.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-core-2.15.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9:
Source:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4971-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Issue date: 2023-09-05

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4Red 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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2171817 - CVE-2023-23931 python-cryptography: memory corruption via immutable objects

2231474 - CVE-2023-40267 GitPython: Insecure non-multi options in clone and clone_from is not blocked

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