DSA-5529-1 slurm-wlm -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-41914  

Francois Diakhate discovered that several race conditions in file processing of the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), a cluster resource management and job scheduling system, could result in denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files. For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 22.05.8-4+deb12u1. In addition slurm-wlm-contrib also needed to be patched in version 22.05.8-4+deb12u1. We recommend that you upgrade your slurm-wlm packages. For the detailed security status of slurm-wlm please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/slurm-wlm

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5529-1 slurm-wlm -- security update

Date Reported:
17 Oct 2023
Affected Packages:
slurm-wlm
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2023-41914.
More information:

Francois Diakhate discovered that several race conditions in file processing of the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), a cluster resource management and job scheduling system, could result in denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 22.05.8-4+deb12u1. In addition slurm-wlm-contrib also needed to be patched in version 22.05.8-4+deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your slurm-wlm packages.

For the detailed security status of slurm-wlm please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/slurm-wlm