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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201607-14">
<title>Ansible: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in Ansible may allow local attackers to gain
escalated privileges or write arbitrary files.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">ansible</product>
<announced>2016-07-20</announced>
<revised count="2">2016-07-20</revised>
<bug>578814</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-admin/ansible" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.0.2.0-r1</unaffected>
<unaffected range="rge">1.9.6</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.0.2.0-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>The create_script function in the lxc_container module of Ansible uses
predictable temporary file names, making it vulnerable to a symlink
attack.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>Local attackers could write arbitrary files or gain escalated privileges
within the container.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Ansible 1.9.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/ansible-1.9.6"
</code>
<p>All Ansible 2.0.2.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/ansible-2.0.2.0-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3096">CVE-2016-3096</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-06-25T23:46:35Z">b-man</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-07-20T11:34:27Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>
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