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.

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.

Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing 0mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor Condor places them into a queue. It chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion.

condor on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3149.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25