GLSA 200704-04: OpenPBS: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	OpenPBS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	04/03/2007
Bugs:	#153495
ID:	200704-04

Synopsis

OpenPBS contains unspecified vulnerabilities which may allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

Background

OpenPBS is the original version of the Portable Batch System. It is a flexible batch queueing system developed for NASA in the early to mid-1990s.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
sys-cluster/openpbs	<= 2.3.16-r4		All supported architectures

Description

SUSE reported vulnerabilities due to unspecified errors in OpenPBS.

Impact

By unspecified attack vectors an attacker might be able execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running openpbs, which might be the root user.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

OpenPBS has been masked in the Portage tree for replacement by Torque. All OpenPBS users should unmerge OpenPBS and switch to Torque.

    
    # emerge --ask --unmerge sys-cluster/openpbs
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --verbose sys-cluster/torque

References

CVE-2006-5616

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-04.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.