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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3149-1 (condor - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Florian Weimer, of Red Hat Product Security, discovered an issue in condor, a distributed workload management system. Upon job completion, it can optionally notify a user by sending an email. The mailx invocation used in that process allowed for any authenticated user able to submit jobs, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the condor user.
Affected Software
Affected Software
condor on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 7.8.2~dfsg.1-1+deb7u3. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.2.3~dfsg.1-6. We recommend that you upgrade your condor packages.