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Ubuntu 22.04: USN-6458-1 Critical Slurm Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Significant Slurm security risks on Ubuntu addressed with patches; make sure your systems are current to defend against potential attacks.
Several security issues were fixed in Slurm.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Slurm.

Software Description:

- slurm-wlm: Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management

- slurm-llnl: Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management

Details:

It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle credential

management, which could allow an unprivileged user to impersonate the

SlurmUser account. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute

arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2022-29500)

It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle access control when

dealing with RPC traffic through PMI2 and PMIx, which could allow an

unprivileged user to send data to an arbitrary unix socket in the host.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as

the root user. (CVE-2022-29501)

It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle validation logic when

processing input and output data with the srun client, which could lead to

the interception of process I/O. An attacker could po...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
libpam-slurm 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
libpmi0 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
libpmi2-0 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
libslurm-perl 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
libslurm37 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
libslurmdb-perl 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
slurm-client 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
slurm-wlm 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
slurm-wlm-basic-plugins 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
slurmctld 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
slurmd 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
slurmdbd 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
slurmrestd 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
libpam-slurm 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
libpmi0 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
libpmi2-0 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
libslurm-perl 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
libslurm34 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
libslurmdb-perl 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
slurm-client 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
slurm-wlm 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
slurm-wlm-basic-plugins 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
slurmctld 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
slurmd 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
slurmdbd 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

After a standard system update you need to restart Slurm to make all the
necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6458-1

CVE-2022-29500, CVE-2022-29501, CVE-2022-29502

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6458-1

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