CVE-2015-6240

Advisory

Ansible 1.9.2 includes a fix for CVE-2015-6240: The chroot, jail, and zone connection plugins in Ansible before 1.9.2 allow local users to escape a restricted environment via a symlink attack.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468

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Vulnerability changelog

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Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6240
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html