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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2018-f21474267b
2018-10-23 19:48:07.563904
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Name : condor
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 8.6.11
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/
Summary : HTCondor: High Throughput Computing
Description :
HTCondor is a workload management system for high-throughput and
high-performance jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, HTCondor
provides a job queuing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme,
resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their
serial or parallel jobs to HTCondor, HTCondor 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:
Update to latest upstream 8.6.11 Security fix for CVE-2017-16816
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1508887 - CVE-2017-16816 condor: DoS of condor_schedd via specially crafted
VOMS proxy
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508887
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update condor' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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