[Secure-testing-team] Bug#850846: ansible: CVE-2016-9587: host to controller command execution vulnerability

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ansible
Version: 2.2.0.0-1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch security upstream
Justification: user security hole

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for ansible.

CVE-2016-9587[0]:
|Compromised remote hosts can lead to running commands on the Ansible
|controller

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9587
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9587
[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019021
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404378
[3] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ec84ff6de6eca9224bf3f22b752bb8da806611ed

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore