Debian DSA-3058-1 : torque - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78695

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Chad Vizino reported a vulnerability in torque, a PBS-derived batch processing queueing system. A non-root user could exploit the flaw in the tm_adopt() library call to kill any process, including root-owned ones on any node in a job.

Solution

Upgrade the torque packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.16+dfsg-1+deb7u4.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78695

File Name: debian_DSA-3058.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/28/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:torque, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3684

BID: 70242

DSA: 3058

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