Executive Summary

Summary
Title condor security and bug fix update
Informations
Name RHSA-2008:0816 First vendor Publication 2008-08-11
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2008-08-11
Severity (Vendor) Moderate Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Updated condor packages that fix a security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat MRG Grid for RHEL-4 AS - i386, x86_64 Red Hat MRG Grid for RHEL-4 ES - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

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.

A flaw was found in the way Condor interpreted wildcards in authorization lists. Certain authorization lists using wildcards in DENY rules, such as DENY_WRITE or HOSTDENY_WRITE, that conflict with the definitions in ALLOW rules, could permit authenticated remote users to submit computation jobs, even when such access should have been denied. (CVE-2008-3424)

Bug fixes:

* the /etc/condor/condor_config file started with "What machine is your central manager?". The following line was blank, instead of having the "CONDOR_HOST" option, causing confusion. The "What machine..." text is now removed.

* condor_config.local defined "LOCK = /tmp/[lock file]". This is no longer explicitly defined; however, lock files may be in "/tmp/", and could be removed by tmpwatch. A "LOCK_FILE_UPDATE_INTERVAL" option, which defaults to eight hours, has been added. This updates the timestamps on lock files, preventing them from being removed by tools such as tmpwatch.

* when a "SCHEDD_NAME" name in condor_config ended with an "@", the system's hostname was appended. For example, if "SCHEDD_NAME = test@" was configured, "condor_q -name test@" failed with an "Collector has no record of schedd/submitter" error. Now, the hostname is not appended when a name ends with an "@". In High Availability (HA) Schedd deployments, this allows a name to be shared by multiple Schedds.

* when too few arguments were passed to "condor_qedit", such as "condor_qedit -constraint TRUE", a segfault occurred. Better argument handling has been added to resolve this.

* due to missing common_createddl.sql and pgsql_createddl.sql files, it was not possible to use Quill. Now, these files are included in "/usr/share/condor/sql/".

* "condor_submit -dump ad [file-name]" caused a segfault if the [file-name] job contained "universe = grid".

* previously, a condor user and group were created if they did not exist, without specifying a specific UID and GID. Now, UID and GID 64 are used. The effect of this change is non-existent if upgrading the condor packages. If an existing condor user and group are manually changed, problems with file ownership will occur.

Configuration changes (from the Condor release notes - see link below):

* a new CKPT_SERVER_CHECK_PARENT_INTERVAL variable sets the time interval between a checkpoint server checking if its parent is running. If the parent server has died, the checkpoint server is shut down.

* a new CKPT_PROBE variable to define an executable for the helper process Condor uses for information about the CheckpointPlatform attribute.

* STARTER_UPLOAD_TIMEOUT now defaults to 300 seconds.

* new variables (booleans) PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS_STABLE and PREEMPTION_RANK_STABLE, configure whether attributes used in PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS and PREEMPTION_RANK change during negotiation cycles.

* a new GRIDMANAGER_MAX_WS_DESTROYS_PER_RESOURCE variable, with a default value of 5, defines the number of simultaneous WS destroy commands that can be sent to a server for type gt4 grid universe jobs.

* now, VALID_SPOOL_FILES automatically includes the "SCHEDD.lock" lock file for condor_schedd HA failover.

* the default value for SEC_DEFAULT_SESSION_DURATION has been changed from 8640000 seconds (100 days) to 86400 seconds (one day).

Important: these updated packages upgrade Condor to version 7.0.4. For a full list of changes, refer to the Condor release notes: www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.0/8_3Stable_Release.html

condor users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

457265 - Rebase on Condor 7.0.4 457266 - condor_submit -dump segfaults when universe = grid 457267 - Red Hat RPMs should identify their buildid, differentiate from UW's builds 457268 - Necessary Quill setup files? 457269 - condor_qedit segfault with too few arguments 457270 - SCHEDD_NAME always appends @$(FULL_HOSTNAME) 457271 - condor_config.local sets up LOCK in /tmp 457272 - /etc/condor/condor_config file missing CONDOR_HOST = option 457372 - CVE-2008-3424 condor: incorrect handling of wild cards in authorization lists 458069 - Add newly assigned UID/GID for condor to product

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0816.html

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
CAPEC-17 Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files
CAPEC-39 Manipulating Opaque Client-based Data Tokens
CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
CAPEC-59 Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
CAPEC-60 Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
CAPEC-76 Manipulating Input to File System Calls
CAPEC-77 Manipulating User-Controlled Variables
CAPEC-87 Forceful Browsing
CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 17
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for condor FEDORA-2008-7205
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7205_condor_fc9.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
47215 Condor Authorization Policy Wildcard Character Handling Security Bypass

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-08-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO