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openSUSE: 2023:4329-1 Important: Slurm Race Condition Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2023
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A crucial patch for slurm resolves race conditions that could result in unauthorized file manipulation. Update applied.
This update for slurm fixes the following issues: CVE-2023-41914: Fixed a filesystem handling race conditions that could lead to an attacker taking control of an arbitrary file

Description

This update for slurm fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-41914: Fixed a filesystem handling race conditions that could lead

to an attacker taking control of an arbitrary file. (bsc#1216207)

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Topics Covered

security advisory important race condition filesystem issue threat mitigation slurm

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-4329=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4329=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP2-LTSS-2023-4329=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64)

* slurm_20_11-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-debuginfo-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-plugins-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* libpmi0_20_11-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-slurmdbd-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-sql-debuginfo-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-devel-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-auth-none-debuginfo-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-torque-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-webdoc-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-debugsource-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-rest-debuginfo-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-lua-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-rest-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-hdf5-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-pam_slurm-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* libnss_slurm2_20_11-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-plugins-debuginfo-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-torque-debuginfo-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-seff-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

* slurm_20_11-sview-20.11.9-150200.6.13.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1208810

* bsc#1216207

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-41914.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208810

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216207

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4329-1
Rating: important

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