glsa-201411-09.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201411-09">
  <title>Ansible: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities has been found in Ansible which may allow
    local privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ansible</product>
  <announced>November 23, 2014</announced>
  <revised>November 23, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>516564</bug>
  <bug>517770</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/ansible" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.6.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ansible. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or obtain
      sensitive information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Ansible users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/ansible-1.6.8"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4657">CVE-2014-4657</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4678">CVE-2014-4678</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4966">CVE-2014-4966</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4967">CVE-2014-4967</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:05:38 +0000">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:50:42 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>