Debian DLA-78-1 : torque security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82223

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security 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.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82223

File Name: debian_DLA-78.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2015

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:libtorque2-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:torque-scheduler, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:torque-mom, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:torque-client-x11, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtorque2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:torque-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:torque-client, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:torque-pam, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:torque-common

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

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