Fedora 20: torque Security Update
Summary
TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource
manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes.
TORQUE is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability,
fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC,
the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many
other leading edge HPC organizations.
This package holds just a few shared files and directories.
Update Information:
Bugfix - #1215207 create/install service files for these
Change Log
* Tue May 19 2015 David Brown
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1215207 - pbs_server does not start trqauthd https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215207 [ 2 ] Bug #1117263 - torque qmgr aborts on server commands while jobs are running https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117263 [ 3 ] Bug #1144396 - torque-4.2.10 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144396 [ 4 ] Bug #1215992 - torque-client (4.x) should package trqauthd service https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215992 [ 5 ] Bug #1216037 - permissions on some /var/lib/torque/ sub-directories https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216037 [ 6 ] Bug #1149045 - CVE-2014-3684 torque: non-root users able to kill any process on any node in a job [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149045 [ 7 ] Bug #965513 - torque package should be built with PIE flags https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965513
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update torque' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .