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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66542
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1689
Summary:The remote host is missing updates announced in;advisory RHSA-2009:1689.;;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 managed jobs. This could allow a user;that is authorized to submit jobs into Condor to queue a job as if it were;submitted by a different local user, potentially leading to unauthorized;access to that user's account. (CVE-2009-4133);;Note: Condor will not run jobs as root. Therefore, this flaw cannot lead to;a compromise of the root user account.;;All Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.2 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.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2009:1689.

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 managed jobs. This could allow a user
that is authorized to submit jobs into Condor to queue a job as if it were
submitted by a different local user, potentially leading to unauthorized
access to that user's account. (CVE-2009-4133)

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

All Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.2 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.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

CVSS Score:
6.5

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4133
BugTraq ID: 37443
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37443
http://condor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=1018
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1688.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1689.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023378
http://secunia.com/advisories/37766
http://secunia.com/advisories/37803
XForce ISS Database: condor-jobs-security-bypass(54984)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54984
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