Fedora 20 : ansible-1.5.5-1.fc20 (2014-5407)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73731

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.5.5. 2 minor security fixes in the apt and vault modules.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.4/CHANGELOG.md

- Security fix for safe_eval, which further hardens the checking of the evaluation function.

- Fix for accelerate mode

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ansible package.

See Also

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.4/CHANGELOG.md

http://www.nessus.org/u?07d90105

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73731

File Name: fedora_2014-5407.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ansible, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2014

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2014-5407