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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7205
2008-08-12 16:08:35
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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