RHSA-2013:1171 - Security Advisory

Topic

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.

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 default HTCondor 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.

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

Affected Products

• MRG Grid 2 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• MRG Grid 2 for RHEL 5 i386
• MRG Grid from RHUI 2 for RHEL 5 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 919401 - CVE-2013-4255 condor: condor_startd DoS when parsing policy definition that evaluates to ERROR or UNDEFINED

CVEs

• CVE-2013-4255

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate