RHEL 6 : condor (RHSA-2012:1169)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 76647

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for condor.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1169 advisory.

Condor 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.

Condor installations that rely solely upon host-based authentication were vulnerable to an attacker who controls an IP, its reverse-DNS entry and has knowledge of a target site's security configuration. With this control and knowledge, the attacker could bypass the target site's host-based authentication and be authorized to perform privileged actions (i.e.
actions requiring ALLOW_ADMINISTRATOR or ALLOW_WRITE). Condor deployments using host-based authentication that contain no hostnames (IPs or IP globs only) or use authentication stronger than host-based are not vulnerable.
(CVE-2012-3416)

Note: Condor will not run jobs as root; therefore, this flaw cannot lead to a compromise of the root user account.

Red Hat would like to thank Ken Hahn and Dan Bradley for reporting this issue.

All Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Condor must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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 RHEL condor package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1169.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 76647

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1169.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/22/2014

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3416

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:condor-plumage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-aviary, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-deltacloud-gahp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-qmf, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-kbdd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-classads, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-vm-gahp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3416

CWE: 284

RHSA: 2012:1169

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