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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2796-1 (torque - arbitrary code execution)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Matt Ezell from Oak Ridge National Labs reported a vulnerability in torque, a PBS-derived batch processing queueing system. A user could submit executable shell commands on the tail of what is passed with the -M switch for qsub. This was later passed to a pipe, making it possible for these commands to be executed as root on the pbs_server.
Affected Software
Affected Software
torque on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.8+dfsg-9squeeze3. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.16+dfsg-1+deb7u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.16+dfsg-1.3. We recommend that you upgrade your torque packages.