RHEL 5 : MRG Grid (RHSA-2012:0100)

high Nessus Plugin ID 76638

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0100 advisory.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, and Grid) is a next-generation IT infrastructure for enterprise computing. MRG offers increased performance, reliability, interoperability, and faster computing for enterprise customers.

MRG Grid provides high-throughput computing and enables enterprises to achieve higher peak computing capacity as well as improved infrastructure utilization by leveraging their existing technology to build high performance grids. MRG Grid provides a job-queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, and a priority scheme, as well as resource monitoring and resource management. Users submit their jobs to MRG Grid, where they are placed into a queue. MRG Grid then chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion.

Multiple format string flaws were found in Condor. An authenticated Condor service user could use these flaws to prevent other jobs from being scheduled and executed, crash the condor_schedd daemon, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the condor user.
(CVE-2011-4930)

These updated packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provide enhancements and bug fixes for the Grid component of MRG. Some select enhancements and fixes include:

* Addition of -sort option to condor_status

* Customized output from condor_q -run for EC2 jobs

* Enhanced the summary line provided by condor_q

* Improved Collector performance around blocking network calls

* Fixed a memory leak associated with python-psycopg2 hit by cumin-data

Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Refer to the Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 Technical Notes document for information on these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_MRG/2/html/Technical_Notes/index.html

All users of the Grid capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve the issues and add the enhancements noted in the Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 Technical Notes.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 76638

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0100.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/22/2014

Updated: 3/21/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4930

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wallaby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-qmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-spqr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spqr-gen, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-wallaby-base-db, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wallaby-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-classads, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-ec2-enhanced-hooks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-kbdd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-vm-gahp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cumin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wallaby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-aviary, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-condorec2e, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-ec2-enhanced, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-wallaby

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4930

RHSA: 2012:0100

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