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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-7205 (condor)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: condor-7.0.4-1.fc9
Date:  Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:24:42 +0000
Message-ID:  <20080812182442.11D81FE57@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-7205 2008-08-12 16:08:35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : condor Product : Fedora 9 Version : 7.0.4 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ Summary : Condor: High Throughput Computing Description : Condor is a specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor, Condor places them into a queue, chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A flaw was found in a way condor interpreted wild cards in the authorization lists. Certain authorization lists using wild cards in DENY rules (such as DENY_WRITE or HOSTDENY_WRITE) that conflict with with definitions in ALLOW rule could permit authenticated remote users to submit computation jobs, even when such access should have been denied. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Aug 6 2008 <mfarrellee@redhat> - 7.0.4-1 - Updated to 7.0.4 source - Stopped using condor_configure in install step * Tue Jun 10 2008 <mfarrellee@redhat> - 7.0.2-1 - Updated to 7.0.2 source - Updated config, specifically HOSTALLOW_WRITE, for Personal Condor setup - Added condor_config.generic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #457372 - CVE-2008-3424 condor: incorrect handling of wild cards in authorization lists https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457372 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update condor' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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