Security update for ansible

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0605-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2017-7550 ( SUSE ): 8.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2017-7550 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2017-7550 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description:

This update for ansible fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2017-7550: A flaw was found in the way Ansible passed certain parameters to the jenkins_plugin module. Remote attackers could use this flaw to expose sensitive information from a remote host's logs. This flaw was fixed by not allowing passwords to be specified in the "params" argument, and noting this in the module documentation. (bsc#1065872)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2018-412=1

Package List:

  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 (noarch)
    • ansible-2.2.3.0-9.1

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