Important: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.13)

Synopsis

Important: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.13)

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.9

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.

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 (2.9.13)

Bug Fix(es):

• CVE-2020-14365 ansible: dnf module install packages with no GPG signature
  

See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.13/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
for details on bug fixes in this release.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1869154 - CVE-2020-14365 ansible: dnf module install packages with no GPG signature

CVEs

• CVE-2020-14365

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important