Ryan Day discovered that the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), a cluster resource management and job scheduling system, does not properly handle SPANK environment variables, allowing a user permitted to submit jobs to execute code as root during the Prolog or Epilog. All systems using a Prolog or Epilog script are vulnerable, regardless of whether SPANK plugins are in use. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 16.05.9-1+deb9u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 17.02.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your slurm-llnl packages.
Ryan Day discovered that the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), a cluster resource management and job scheduling system, does not properly handle SPANK environment variables, allowing a user permitted to submit jobs to execute code as root during the Prolog or Epilog. All systems using a Prolog or Epilog script are vulnerable, regardless of whether SPANK plugins are in use.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 16.05.9-1+deb9u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 17.02.9-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your slurm-llnl packages.
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