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SUSE: 2020:3892-1 Critical: Slurm Buffer Overflow & Cookie Leak Fix

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2020
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Important SUSE patch for slurm_20_02 resolving significant security vulnerabilities including buffer overflow and cookie exposure risks. Update immediately!
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for slurm_20_02 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2020-27745: Fixed a potential buffer overflow from use of unpackmem (bsc#1178890). - CVE-2020-27746: Fixed a potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891). Non-security issues fixed: - Updated to 20.02.6. Full log and details available at: * https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2020/000045.html - Updated to 20.02.5, changes: * Fix leak of TRESRunMins when job time is changed with --time-min * pam_slurm - explicitly initialize slurm config to support configless mode. * scontrol - Fix exit code when creating/updating reservations with wrong Flags. * When a GRES has a no_consume flag, report 0 for allocated. * Fix cgroup cleanup by jobacct_gather/cgroup.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important suse linux slurm cookie leak hpc

References

#1178890 #1178891

Cross- CVE-2020-27745 CVE-2020-27746

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for HPC 12

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27745.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27746.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178890

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178891

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3892-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important suse linux slurm cookie leak hpc

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