Debian: DSA-2936-1: torque security update

Date23 May 2014

CategoryDebian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

Posted ByLinuxSecurity Advisories

John Fitzpatrick from MWR Labs reported a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in torque, a PBS-derived batch processing queueing system. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2936-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                      Salvatore Bonaccorso
May 23, 2014                           https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : torque
CVE ID         : CVE-2014-0749
Debian Bug     : 748827

John Fitzpatrick from MWR Labs reported a stack-based buffer overflow
vulnerability in torque, a PBS-derived batch processing queueing system.
An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute
arbitrary code with root privileges.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.8+dfsg-9squeeze4.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.16+dfsg-1+deb7u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.16+dfsg-1.4.

We recommend that you upgrade your torque packages.

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