Executive Summary

Summary
Title Ansible: Privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201411-09 First vendor Publication 2014-11-23
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-11-23
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score Not Defined Attack Range Not Defined
Cvss Impact Score Not Defined Attack Complexity Not Defined
Cvss Expoit Score Not Defined Authentication Not Defined
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found in Ansible which may allow local privilege escalation.

Background

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ansible. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ansible users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/ansible-1.6.8"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-4657 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4657
[ 2 ] CVE-2014-4678 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4678
[ 3 ] CVE-2014-4966 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4966
[ 4 ] CVE-2014-4967 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4967

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-09.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-09.xml

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-11-26 13:28:28
  • Multiple Updates
2014-11-23 21:21:11
  • First insertion