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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201701-77.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201701-77">
<title>Ansible: Remote execution of arbitrary code</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in Ansible may allow rogue clients to execute
commands on the Ansible controller.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">ansible</product>
<announced>2017-01-31</announced>
<revised count="1">2017-01-31</revised>
<bug>605342</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-admin/ansible" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.1.4.0_rc3</unaffected>
<unaffected range="ge">2.2.1.0_rc5</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.1.4.0_rc3</vulnerable>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.2.1.0_rc5</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansibles handling of
data sent from client systems.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible
and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could execute
arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible-server privileges.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Ansible 2.1.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/ansible-2.1.4.0_rc3"
</code>
<p>All Ansible 2.2.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/ansible-2.2.1.0_rc5"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9587">CVE-2016-9587</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-30T01:33:48Z">whissi</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-31T15:20:20Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>