USN-4771-1: HTCondor vulnerabilities

15 March 2021

Several security issues were fixed in HTCondor.

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Releases

Packages

  • condor - distributed workload management system

Details

It was discovered that HTCondor incorrectly invoked the mailx utility. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-8126)

It was discovered that HTCondor mishandled certain crafted input. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to cause HTCondor to crash.
(CVE-2017-16816)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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