Bug 919401 (CVE-2013-4255) - CVE-2013-4255 condor: condor_startd DoS when parsing policy definition that evaluates to ERROR or UNDEFINED
Summary: CVE-2013-4255 condor: condor_startd DoS when parsing policy definition that e...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-4255
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 919037 999579
Blocks: 919407
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-08 11:22 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-05-12 15:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 22:00:51 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1171 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: condor security update 2013-08-21 21:27:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1172 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: condor security update 2013-08-21 21:27:30 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 11:22:42 UTC 
A denial of service flaw was found in the way Condor's policy definition evaluator processed certain policy definitions. If an administrator used an attribute defined on a job in any of the following condor_startd policies (CONTINUE, KILL, PREEMPT, SUSPEND), a remote Condor service user could use this flaw to cause a denial of the condor_startd service by submitting a Condor job that caused certain policy definition to be evaluated to either ERROR or UNDEFINED states.

Workaround:
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Check for UNDEFINED & ERROR in the policy configuration.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 11:38:26 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was found by Matthew Farrellee of Red Hat.
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2013-08-16 13:48:20 UTC 
Upstream pointed out that this issue is known with several public upstream bug reports related to this problem:

https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=1786
https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=3829
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2013-08-21 15:27:55 UTC 
Making this bug public.
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2013-08-21 15:29:46 UTC 
Created condor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 999579]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-21 17:28:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2013:1172 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1172.html
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-21 17:28:45 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2

Via RHSA-2013:1171 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1171.html
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