Vulnerability in Slurm: privilege escalation via user_name/gid


Synthesis of the vulnerability 


An attacker can bypass restrictions via user_name/gid of Slurm, in order to escalate his privileges.
Vulnerable systems: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity of this threat: 2/4.
Creation date: 11/06/2018.
Références of this weakness: CVE-2018-10995, DLA-1437-1, DLA-1437-2, DSA-4254-1, FEDORA-2018-8f5a50e4d7, FEDORA-2018-d54c4f6452, openSUSE-SU-2018:1955-1, SUSE-SU-2018:1652-1, SUSE-SU-2018:1925-1, SUSE-SU-2020:0434-1, SUSE-SU-2020:0443-1, SUSE-SU-2020:2607-1, SUSE-SU-2021:0773-1, USN-4781-2, VIGILANCE-VUL-26366.

Description of the vulnerability 


An attacker can bypass restrictions via user_name/gid of Slurm, in order to escalate his privileges.
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This threat announce impacts software or systems such as Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.

Our Vigilance Vulnerability Alerts team determined that the severity of this cybersecurity alert is medium.

The trust level is of type confirmed by the editor, with an origin of user account.

An attacker with a expert ability can exploit this security alert.

Solutions for this threat 


Debian 8: new slurm-llnl packages.
New packages are available:
  Debian 8: slurm-llnl 14.03.9-5+deb8u4

Debian 9: new slurm-llnl packages.
New packages are available:
  Debian 9: slurm-llnl 16.05.9-1+deb9u2

Fedora: new slurm packages.
New packages are available:
  Fedora 27: slurm 17.02.11-1.fc27
  Fedora 28: slurm 17.11.7-1.fc28

openSUSE Leap 15.0: new slurm packages.
New packages are available:
  openSUSE Leap 15.0: slurm 17.11.7-lp150.5.7.1

SUSE LE 12: new pdsh packages.
New packages are available:
  SUSE LE 12 RTM-SP5: pdsh 2.33-7.18.1, slurm_18_08 18.08.9-3.5.1

SUSE LE 12: new slurm_20_02 packages.
New packages are available:
  SUSE LE 12 RTM: slurm_20_02 20.02.3-3.5.1

SUSE LE 12: new slurm_20_11 packages.
New packages are available:
  SUSE LE 12 RTM: slurm_20_11 20.11.4-3.5.1

SUSE LE 12: new slurm packages.
New packages are available:
  SUSE LE 12 RTM-SP3: slurm 17.02.11-6.19.1

SUSE LE 15: new pdsh packages.
New packages are available:
  SUSE LE 15 RTM: pdsh 2.33-7.6.1, slurm 18_08-18.08.9-1.5.2
  SUSE LE 15 SP1: pdsh 2.33-7.6.1

SUSE LE 15: new slurm packages.
New packages are available:
  SUSE LE 15 RTM: slurm 17.11.7-6.3.1

Ubuntu 14.04/16.04: new slurm-llnl packages.
New packages are available:
  Ubuntu 14.04: slurm-llnl 2.6.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm6, libpam-slurm 2.6.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm6, libpmi0 2.6.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm6, etc.
  Ubuntu 16.04: slurm-llnl 15.08.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm5, libpam-slurm 15.08.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm5, libpmi0 15.08.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm5, etc.
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