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Fedora 27 : slurm (2017-4dad5165dc)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105873

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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

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

Solution

Update the affected slurm package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4dad5165dc

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15566

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105873

File Name: fedora_2017-4dad5165dc.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slurm

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15566