RHEL 6 : condor (RHSA-2015:0035)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80469

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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-2015:0035 advisory.

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.

The HTCondor scheduler can optionally notify a user of completed jobs by sending an email. Due to the way the daemon sent the email message, authenticated users able to submit jobs could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the condor user. (CVE-2014-8126)

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

All Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5 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.

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-2015:0035.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80469

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-0035.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/13/2015

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8126

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:condor-plumage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor-aviary, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:condor, 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-cluster-resource-agent

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8126

CWE: 78

RHSA: 2015:0035

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