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Red Hat RHEL 7: RHSA-2018-3772-01 Moderate: Ansible PowerShell Fix

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. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: ansible security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3772-01 Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772 Issue date: 2018-12-04 CVE Names: CVE-2018-16859 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: 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. 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. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 - noarch 3. Description: 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 (2.7.4) Security fix(es): * ansible: become password logged in plaintext when used with PowerShell on Windows (CVE-2018-16859) 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 Igor Turovsky for reporting this issue. BugFix(es): See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.7.4/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst for details on bug fixes in this release. 4. 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 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1649607 - CVE-2018-16859 ansible: become password logged in plaintext when used with PowerShell on Windows 6. Package List: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7: Source: ansible-2.7.4-1.el7ae.src.rpm noarch: ansible-2.7.4-1.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 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16859 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIVAwUBXAbHN9zjgjWX9erEAQgy9RAAkQB+mWsieU4t14u0OCXRM7JWGVX++M9y eWcpf+w/rbPgVZzewHnphd+EIUq/Vqh0SNN91f0IfySzrwD4ecr3cR9xWdhyB+ql UeY8hkA1Ecql1OGDjS8K2PeOhZWUl/bOWAOrb7v7cFLXpIiNrxWJsVVHDBq+t2wf QOnB+3wYGRtctI4NYY3e8tH/HpQsuTgcotjPfxqwbkvMx/wIVQr773mGkrPSvmoz nGq0N7Yq5oOCi0X5re4bLRHv7BC5VrzejSGSL8ifyLOXrUj4Pkvad5Fl6e7UNSj2 V0Fi3V2EUcpFvxWzipuMTOriLi9DnH2x1TuWO2x43gwh0EOTAyhZcs6YvwSYfH0S REipohB6gJN2waG+M1URnKUINUBEEIK7GZLZK8UV8a0E1/lUaiqQXVZUo2VEzhaz FIQKReR8rk8BKytkJqea0k8omQACNpUwUWU8csKOXgPz1BEN+RuptlO1zw9xleB+ vV1LJ7uiom33Odu5Xn18e06FDv51r1/DrNeR1jt+mmaGDA6dA6h0IvDrs6rPgmUD Hgws32qbIRbHR1es7v6bhNMt08J9Uxv2Pl+3QR+ndwx8IbjJIU5AM02H14gEzLx9 EB7tvnvktAe/nBQ+5ATXzNdrUEO4+4gmMjmqbdikQ5pdPkWdo68h5t3N2HJrzNT1 1WcW4Wj7Zog=/z8F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The latest guidance from Red Hat regarding the ansible upgrade forRHEL 7 highlights several important security enhancements and bug corrections appropriately.. Ansible Update, Red Hat Advisory, Configuration Management. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

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