- Issued:
- 2024-05-22
- Updated:
- 2024-05-22
RHSA-2024:3043 - Moderate: ansible-core bug fix, enhancement, and security update
Synopsis
Moderate: ansible-core bug fix, enhancement, and security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory Moderate
Topic
An update for ansible-core is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
'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.
Description
Ansible is a radically 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.
Security Fix(es):
- ansible-core: possible information leak in tasks that ignore ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration (CVE-2024-0690)
Bug Fix(es):
-
Update ansible-core to 2.16.3 (JIRA:RHEL-23782)
-
Rebuild ansible-core with python 3.12 (JIRA:RHEL-24141)
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
| Product | Version | Arch |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 | 8 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle | 8.10 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian | 8 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle | 8.10 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems | 8 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle | 8.10 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 | 8 | aarch64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle | 8.10 | aarch64 |
Updated Packages
- ansible-core-2.16.3-2.el8.s390x.rpm
- ansible-core-2.16.3-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ansible-core-2.16.3-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm
- ansible-test-2.16.3-2.el8.s390x.rpm
- ansible-test-2.16.3-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm
- ansible-core-2.16.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ansible-core-2.16.3-2.el8.src.rpm
- ansible-test-2.16.3-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ansible-test-2.16.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm
Fixes
- This content is not included.BZ - 2259013
- This content is not included.RHEL-18965
- This content is not included.RHEL-19297
- This content is not included.RHEL-23782
- This content is not included.RHEL-24141
CVEs
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.10_release_notes/index
Additional information
- The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
- Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.