Insecure SPANK environment variable handling exists in SchedMD Slurm before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2, allowing privilege escalation to root during Prolog or Epilog execution.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4781-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Slurm incorrectly handled certain messages between the daemon and the user. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to assume control of an arbitrary file on the system. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-10030)

    It was discovered that Slurm mishandled SPANK environment variables. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to gain elevated privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-15566)

    It was discovered that Slurm mishandled certain SQL queries. A local attacker could use this issue to gain     elevated privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2018-7033)

    It was discovered that Slurm mishandled user names and group ids. A local attacker could use this issue to     gain administrative privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2018-10995)

    It was discovered that Slurm mishandled 23-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to gain     administrative privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04     ESM. (CVE-2019-6438)

    It was discovered that Slurm incorrectly handled certain inputs when Message Aggregation is enabled. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to launch a process as an arbitrary user. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-12693)

    It was discovered that Slurm incorrectly handled certain RPC inputs. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2020-27745)

    Jonas Stare discovered that Slurm exposes sensitive information related to the X protocol. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to obtain a graphical session from an arbitrary user. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-27746)

    It was discovered that Slurm incorrectly handled environment parameters. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-31215)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for pdsh, slurm_20_02 fixes the following issues :

Changes in slurm_20_02 :

Add support for openPMIx also for Leap/SLE 15.0/1 (bsc#1173805).

Do not run %check on SLE-12-SP2: Some incompatibility in tcl makes this fail.

Remove unneeded build dependency to postgresql-devel.

Disable build on s390 (requires 64bit).

Bring QA to the package build: add %%check stage.

Remove cruft that isn't needed any longer.

Add 'ghosted' run-file.

Add rpmlint filter to handle issues with library packages for Leap and enterprise upgrade versions.

Updated to 20.02.3 which fixes CVE-2020-12693 (bsc#1172004).

Other changes are :

  - Factor in ntasks-per-core=1 with cons_tres.

  - Fix formatting in error message in cons_tres.

  - Fix calling stat on a NULL variable.

  - Fix minor memory leak when using reservations with     flags=first_cores.

  - Fix gpu bind issue when CPUs=Cores and ThreadsPerCore >     1 on a node.

  - Fix --mem-per-gpu for heterogenous --gres requests.

  - Fix slurmctld load order in load_all_part_state().

  - Fix race condition not finding jobacct gather task     cgroup entry.

  - Suppress error message when selecting nodes on disjoint     topologies.

  - Improve performance of _pack_default_job_details() with     large number of job

  - arguments.

  - Fix archive loading previous to 17.11 jobs per-node     req_mem.

  - Fix regresion validating that --gpus-per-socket requires

    --sockets-per-node

  - for steps. Should only validate allocation requests.

  - error() instead of fatal() when parsing an invalid     hostlist.

  - nss_slurm - fix potential deadlock in slurmstepd on     overloaded systems.

  - cons_tres - fix --gres-flags=enforce-binding and related

    --cpus-per-gres.

  - cons_tres - Allocate lowest numbered cores when     filtering cores with gres.

  - Fix getting system counts for named GRES/TRES.

  - MySQL - Fix for handing typed GRES for association     rollups.

  - Fix step allocations when tasks_per_core > 1.

  - Fix allocating more GRES than requested when asking for     multiple GRES types.

Treat libnss_slurm like any other package: add version string to upgrade package.

Updated to 20.02.1 with following changes'

  - Improve job state reason for jobs hitting     partition_job_depth.

  - Speed up testing of singleton dependencies.

  - Fix negative loop bound in cons_tres.

  - srun - capture the MPI plugin return code from     mpi_hook_client_fini() and use as final return code for     step failure.

  - Fix segfault in cli_filter/lua.

  - Fix --gpu-bind=map_gpu reusability if tasks > elements.

  - Make sure config_flags on a gres are sent to the     slurmctld on node registration.

  - Prolog/Epilog - Fix missing GPU information.

  - Fix segfault when using config parser for expanded     lines.

  - Fix bit overlap test function.

  - Don't accrue time if job begin time is in the future.

  - Remove accrue time when updating a job start/eligible     time to the future.

  - Fix regression in 20.02.0 that broke --depend=expand.

  - Reset begin time on job release if it's not in the     future.

  - Fix for recovering burst buffers when using     high-availability.

  - Fix invalid read due to freeing an incorrectly allocated     env array.

  - Update slurmctld -i message to warn about losing data.

  - Fix scontrol cancel_reboot so it clears the DRAIN flag     and node reason for a pending ASAP reboot.

Changes in pdsh: Bring QA to the package build: add %%check stage

Since the build for the SLE-12 HPC Module got fixed, simplify spec file and remove legacy workarounds.

Remove _multibuild file where not needed.

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This update for pdsh, slurm_18_08 fixes the following issues :

Slurm was included in the 18.08 release, as 'slurm_18_08' package. The version 18.08.9 contains all recent security fixes, including :

CVE-2019-19728: Fixed a privilege escalation with srun, where --uid might have unintended side effects (bsc#1159692).

CVE-2019-19727: Fixed permissions of slurmdbd.conf (bsc#1155784).

pdsh was updated to: Add support for an alternative SLURM version when building the slurm plugin.

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This update for slurm fixes the following issues: Slurm was updated to 17.02.9 to fix a security bug, bringing new features and bugfixes (fate#323998 bsc#1067580). Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2017-15566: Fix security issue in Prolog and Epilog     by always prepending SPANK_ to all user-set environment     variables. (bsc#1065697) Changes in 17.02.9 :

  - When resuming powered down nodes, mark DOWN nodes right     after ResumeTimeout has been reached (previous logic     would wait about one minute longer).

  - Fix sreport not showing full column name for TRES Count.

  - Fix slurmdb_reservations_get() giving wrong usage data     when job's spanned reservation that was modified.

  - Fix sreport reservation utilization report showing bad     data.

  - Show all TRES' on a reservation in sreport reservation     utilization report by default.

  - Fix sacctmgr show reservation handling 'end' parameter.

  - Work around issue with sysmacros.h and gcc7 / glibc     2.25.

  - Fix layouts code to only allow setting a boolean.

  - Fix sbatch --wait to keep waiting even if a message     timeout occurs.

  - CRAY - If configured with NodeFeatures=knl_cray and     there are non-KNL nodes which include no features the     slurmctld will abort without this patch when attemping     strtok_r(NULL).

  - Fix regression in 17.02.7 which would run the     spank_task_privileged as part of the slurmstepd instead     of it's child process. Changes in 17.02.8 :

  - Add 'slurmdbd:' to the accounting plugin to notify     message is from dbd instead of local.

  - mpi/mvapich - Buffer being only partially cleared. No     failures observed.

  - Fix for job --switch option on dragonfly network.

  - In salloc with --uid option, drop supplementary groups     before changing UID.

  - jobcomp/elasticsearch - strip any trailing slashes from     JobCompLoc.

  - jobcomp/elasticsearch - fix memory leak when     transferring generated buffer.

  - Prevent slurmstepd ABRT when parsing gres.conf CPUs.

  - Fix sbatch --signal to signal all MPI ranks in a step     instead of just those on node 0.

  - Check multiple partition limits when scheduling a job     that were previously only checked on submit.

  - Cray: Avoid running application/step Node Health Check     on the external job step.

  - Optimization enhancements for partition based job     preemption.

  - Address some build warnings from GCC 7.1, and one     possible memory leak if /proc is inaccessible.

  - If creating/altering a core based reservation with     scontrol/sview on a remote cluster correctly determine     the select type.

  - Fix autoconf test for libcurl when clang is used.

  - Fix default location for     cgroup_allowed_devices_file.conf to use correct default     path.

  - Document NewName option to sacctmgr.

  - Reject a second PMI2_Init call within a single step to     prevent slurmstepd from hanging.

  - Handle old 32bit values stored in the database for     requested memory correctly in sacct.

  - Fix memory leaks in the task/cgroup plugin when     constraining devices.

  - Make extremely verbose info messages debug2 messages in     the task/cgroup plugin when constraining devices.

  - Fix issue that would deny the stepd access to /dev/null     where GRES has a 'type' but no file defined.

  - Fix issue where the slurmstepd would fatal on job launch     if you have no gres listed in your slurm.conf but some     in gres.conf.

  - Fix validating time spec to correctly validate various     time formats.

  - Make scontrol work correctly with job update timelimit     [+|-]=.

  - Reduce the visibily of a number of warnings in
    _part_access_check.

  - Prevent segfault in sacctmgr if no association name is     specified for an update command.

  - burst_buffer/cray plugin modified to work with changes     in Cray UP05 software release.

  - Fix job reasons for jobs that are violating assoc     MaxTRESPerNode limits.

  - Fix segfault when unpacking a 16.05 slurm_cred in a     17.02 daemon.

  - Fix setting TRES limits with case insensitive TRES     names.

  - Add alias for xstrncmp() -- slurm_xstrncmp().

  - Fix sorting of case insensitive strings when using     xstrcasecmp().

  - Gracefully handle race condition when reading /proc as     process exits.

  - Avoid error on Cray duplicate setup of core     specialization.

  - Skip over undefined (hidden in Slurm) nodes in pbsnodes.

  - Add empty hashes in perl api's slurm_load_node() for     hidden nodes.

  - CRAY - Add rpath logic to work for the alpscomm libs.

  - Fixes for administrator extended TimeLimit (job reason &     time limit reset).

  - Fix gres selection on systems running select/linear.

  - sview: Added window decorator for     maximize,minimize,close buttons for all systems.

  - squeue: interpret negative length format specifiers as a     request to delimit values with spaces.

  - Fix the torque pbsnodes wrapper script to parse a gres     field with a type set correctly. This update also     contains pdsh rebuilt against the new libslurm version.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Upstream version 17.02.9 closes privilege escalation issue [CVE-2017-15566](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15566).

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Ryan Day discovered that the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), a cluster resource management and job scheduling system, does not properly handle SPANK environment variables, allowing a user permitted to submit jobs to execute code as root during the Prolog or Epilog. All systems using a Prolog or Epilog script are vulnerable, regardless of whether SPANK plugins are in use.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
183132	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : Slurm vulnerabilities (USN-4781-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
147801	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : slurm_20_11 / pdsh (SUSE-SU-2021:0773-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
143870	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : pdsh, slurm_20_02 (SUSE-SU-2020:2607-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
134036	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : pdsh, slurm_18_08 (SUSE-SU-2020:0443-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
133949	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : pdsh, slurm_18_08 (SUSE-SU-2020:0434-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
120011	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : slurm (SUSE-SU-2017:3311-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
105873	Fedora 27 : slurm (2017-4dad5165dc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
104442	Debian DSA-4023-1 : slurm-llnl - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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