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Debian Lenny DSA-1776-1 Critical: SLURM Local Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2009
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Uncover how Debian's DSA-1776-1 mitigates SLURM privilege escalation threats within cluster management frameworks.
It was discovered that the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), a cluster job management and scheduling system, did not drop the supplemental groups
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Summary

The old stable distribution (etch) does not contain a slurm-llnl package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.6-1lenny3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.15-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your slurm-llnl package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 64996 5fddc1d94476619e4b7c7f22c8678d26
Size/MD5 checksum: 6594797 1d0585a558b91158c65db7298dd22426
Size/MD5 checksum: 1710 05867d451d0e8c89e5ffa8efec2cc89d

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