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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 10:35:20 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Agostino Sarubbo <ago@...too.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Torque privilege escalation

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On 09/09/2013 04:14 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
> From the torque advisory 
> http://www.supercluster.org/pipermail/torqueusers/2013-September/016098.html
> :
> 
> *Vulnerability:* A non-privileged user who can run jobs or login to
> a node running pbs_server or pbs_mom can submit an arbitrary job to
> the cluster; that job can run as root. The user can submit a
> command directly to a pbs_mom daemon to queue and run a job. A
> malicious user could use this vulnerability to remotely execute
> code as root on the cluster.
> 
> 
> *Versions Affected:* All versions of TORQUE
> 
> 
> *Mitigating Factors:*
> 
> - The user must be logged in on a node that is already legitimately
> able to contact pbs_mom daemons or submit jobs.
> 
> - If a user submits a job via this defect and pbs_server is
> running, pbs_server will kill the job unless job syncing is
> disabled. It may take up to 45 seconds for pbs_server to kill the
> job.
> 
> - There are no known instances of this vulnerability being
> exploited.
> 

Please include links to the vulns/source code fixes/original
information thanks.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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