Bug 1169800 (CVE-2014-8126)

Summary: CVE-2014-8126 condor: mailx invocation enables code execution as condor user
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: high    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bhu, chazlett, esammons, iboverma, jross, jrusnack, ltoscano, matt, mcressma, security-response-team, williams
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: condor 8.2.6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
The HTCondor scheduler can optionally notify a user of completed jobs by sending an email. Due to the way the daemon sent the email message, authenticated users able to submit jobs could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the condor user.
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Last Closed: 2015-01-12 20:54:38 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1171136, 1181291    
Bug Blocks: 1174797    
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Description Florian Weimer 2014-12-02 13:26:03 UTC 
The HTCondor scheduler can optionally notify a user of completed jobs by sending an email. Due to the way the daemon sent the email message, authenticated users able to submit jobs could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the condor user.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.
Comment 8 Vincent Danen 2015-01-08 16:25:39 UTC 
Upstream bug report:

https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=4764

And upstream fix:

https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/chngview?cn=41878
https://github.com/htcondor/htcondor/commit/e891cea9970496aac74caf72604475a2b7e6a0ca.patch
Comment 9 Florian Weimer 2015-01-08 16:32:27 UTC 
Created attachment 977841 [details]
sendmail.patch

This patch also needs a configuration file change to set the SENDMAIL parameter.
Comment 10 Vincent Danen 2015-01-12 19:59:42 UTC 
Created condor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1181291]
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-12 20:15:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2

Via RHSA-2015:0036 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0036.html
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-12 20:25:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2015:0035 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0035.html
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2015-07-18 01:55:43 UTC 
condor-8.3.6-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.