DSA-3543-1 oar -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3543-1 oar -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Apr 2016

Affected Packages:

oar

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1235.

More information:

Emmanuel Thome discovered that missing sanitising in the oarsh command of OAR, a software used to manage jobs and resources of HPC clusters, could result in privilege escalation.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.2-3+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.4-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your oar packages.