Fedora 25 : ansible (2016-3ccb098630)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94999

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Add patch to fix dnf module groupinstall handling

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Update to new ansible 2.2 version.

For full changes see :

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.md

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

Solution

Update the affected ansible package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94999

File Name: fedora_2016-3ccb098630.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/21/2016

Updated: 1/16/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8628

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ansible

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8614, CVE-2016-8628

FEDORA: 2016-3ccb098630

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