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Red Hat Enterprise MRG: RHSA-2013:1171-01 Moderate HTCondor DoS Issue

Updated condor packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: condor security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:1171-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG for RHEL-5 Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1171.html Issue date: 2013-08-21 CVE Names: CVE-2013-4255 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated condor packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: MRG Grid Execute Node for RHEL 5 Server v.2 - i386, x86_64 MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server v.2 - i386, x86_64 3. Description: HTCondor is a specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. It provides a job queuing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, and resource monitoring and management. A denial of service flaw was found in the way HTCondor's policy definition evaluator processed certain policy definitions. If an administrator used an attribute defined on a job in a CONTINUE, KILL, PREEMPT, or SUSPEND condor_startd policy, a remote HTCondor service user could use this flaw to cause condor_startd to exit by submitting a job that caused such a policy definition to be evaluated to either the ERROR or UNDEFINED states. (CVE-2013-4255) Note: This issue did not affect the defaultHTCondor configuration. This issue was found by Matthew Farrellee of Red Hat. All Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. HTCondor must be restarted for the update to take effect. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 919401 - CVE-2013-4255 condor: condor_startd DoS when parsing policy definition that evaluates to ERROR or UNDEFINED 6. Package List: MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server v.2: Source: i386: condor-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-aviary-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-classads-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-debuginfo-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-kbdd-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-qmf-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-vm-gahp-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm x86_64: condor-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-aviary-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-classads-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-debuginfo-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-kbdd-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-qmf-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-vm-gahp-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm MRG Grid Execute Node for RHEL 5 Server v.2: Source: i386: condor-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-classads-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-debuginfo-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-kbdd-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-qmf-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm condor-vm-gahp-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.i386.rpm x86_64: condor-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-classads-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-debuginfo-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-kbdd-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-qmf-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm condor-vm-gahp-7.8.8-0.4.2.el5_9.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details onhow to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4255 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFSFQcQXlSAg2UNWIIRAmwSAJ9dChADxves/BxNggiB6UXKV3yxiQCfSZrd xuzoNLw/TzaIaXf4lEQmh4w=5TAt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Enterprise-watch-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . A moderate security patch for Red Hat's Condor mitigates a denial of service vulnerability and includes critical package enhancements.. HTCondor Security Update, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, DoS Threat. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Aug 21, 2013 Red Hat