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SUSE 15-SP1: SUSE-SU-2020:0110-1 Important: Slurm Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Update for slurm: Pivotal enhancements implemented, various weaknesses resolved along with guidance for applying patches.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available

Summary

This update for slurm to version 18.08.9 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-19728: Fixed a privilege escalation with srun, where --uid might have unintended side effects (bsc#1159692). - CVE-2019-12838: Fixed SchedMD Slurm SQL Injection issue (bnc#1140709). - CVE-2019-19727: Fixed permissions of slurmdbd.conf (bsc#1155784). Bug fixes: - Fix ownership of /var/spool/slurm on new installations and upgrade (bsc#1158696). - Fix %posttrans macro _res_update to cope with added newline (bsc#1153259). - Move srun from 'slurm' to 'slurm-node': srun is required on the nodes as well so sbatch will work. 'slurm-node' is a requirement when 'slurm' is installed (bsc#1153095). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

References

#1140709 #1153095 #1153259 #1155784 #1158696

#1159692

Cross- CVE-2019-12838 CVE-2019-19727 CVE-2019-19728

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for HPC 15-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12838.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19727.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19728.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1140709

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1153095

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1153259

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1155784

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1158696

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159692

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:0110-1
Rating: important

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