Bug 980821 (CVE-2013-2233)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2233 ansible: Does not cache SSH host keys (preventing possibility of server's host key to be checked against system host keys)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kevin, maxim
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Bug Depends On:	980827, 980828
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-07-03 10:01:36 UTC

A security flaw was found in the way Ansible, a SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system, performed remote server's SSH host key management (previously ability to store known SSH server's host keys to local cache was not supported). A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks against the Ansible task execution system user.

References:
[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/01/2
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/02/6

Upstream bug (no upstream patch as of 2013-07-03):
[3] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/857

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-07-03 10:04:59 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the ansible package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17, 18, and 19. Please schedule an update (once there's final upstream patch available).

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This issue affects the version of the ansible package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL-6. Please schedule an update (once there's final upstream patch available).

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-07-03 10:06:53 UTC

Created ansible tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 980827]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 980828]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-07-15 01:04:52 UTC

ansible-1.2.2-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-07-15 01:06:18 UTC

ansible-1.2.2-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-07-15 01:10:03 UTC

ansible-1.2.2-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-07-21 18:37:17 UTC

ansible-1.2.2-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.