rhsa-2018_3836
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2018-12-18 12:01
Modified
2024-11-05 20:55
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: ansible security and bug fix update

Notes

Topic
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.
Details
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 (2.6.11) 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/v2.6.11/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.
Terms of Use
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