CVE-2016-10030

These are all security issues fixed in the libnss_slurm2-21.08.1-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

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.

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.

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.

This update for pdsh fixes the following issues:

• Preparing pdsh for Slurm 20.11 (jsc#ECO-2412)

• Simplify convoluted condition.

  This update for slurm fixes the following issues:

• Fix potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem(). CVE-2020-27745 (bsc#1178890)

• Fix potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command. CVE-2020-27746 (bsc#1178891)

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

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

• slurm-plugins will now also require pmix not only libpmix (bsc#1164326)

• Removed autopatch as it doesn't work for the SLE-11-SP4 build.

• Disable %arm builds as this is no longer supported.

• pmix searches now also for libpmix.so.2 so that there is no dependency for devel package (bsc#1164386)

• Update to version 20.02.0 (jsc#SLE-8491)

  • Fix minor memory leak in slurmd on reconfig.
  • Fix invalid ptr reference when rolling up data in the database.
  • Change shtml2html.py to require python3 for RHEL8 support, and match man2html.py.
  • slurm.spec - override 'hardening' linker flags to ensure RHEL8 builds in a usable manner.
  • Fix type mismatches in the perl API.
  • Prevent use of uninitialized slurmctld_diag_stats.
  • Fixed various Coverity issues.
  • Only show warning about root-less topology in daemons.
  • Fix accounting of jobs in IGNORE_JOBS reservations.
  • Fix issue with batch steps state not loading correctly when upgrading from 19.05.
  • Deprecate max_depend_depth in SchedulerParameters and move it to DependencyParameters.
  • Silence erroneous error on slurmctld upgrade when loading federation state.
  • Break infinite loop in cons_tres dealing with incorrect tasks per tres request resulting in slurmctld hang.
  • Improve handling of --gpus-per-task to make sure appropriate number of GPUs is assigned to job.
  • Fix seg fault on cons_res when requesting --spread-job.

• Move to python3 for everything but SLE-11-SP4

  • For SLE-11-SP4 add a workaround to handle a python3 script (python2.7 compliant).

  • sbatch - fix segfault when no newline at the end of a burst buffer file.

  • Change scancel to only check job's base state when matching -t options.

  • Save job dependency list in state files.

  • cons_tres - allow jobs to be run on systems with root-less topologies.

  • Restore pre-20.02pre1 PrologSlurmctld synchonization behavior to avoid various race conditions, and ensure proper batch job launch.

  • Add new slurmrestd command/daemon which implements the Slurm REST API.

• standard slurm.conf uses now also SlurmctldHost on all build targets (bsc#1162377)

• start slurmdbd after mariadb (bsc#1161716)

• Update to version 19.05.5 (jsc#SLE-8491)

  • Includes security fixes CVE-2019-19727, CVE-2019-19728, CVE-2019-12838.
  • Disable i586 builds as this is no longer supported.
  • Create libnss_slurm package to support user and group resolution thru slurmstepd.

• Update to v18.08.9 for fixing CVE-2019-19728 (bsc#1159692).

  • Make Slurm compile on linux after sys/sysctl.h was deprecated.
  • Install slurmdbd.conf.example with 0600 permissions to encourage secure use. CVE-2019-19727.
  • srun - do not continue with job launch if --uid fails. CVE-2019-19728.

• added pmix support jsc#SLE-10800

• Use --with-shared-libslurm to build slurm binaries using libslurm.

• Make libslurm depend on slurm-config.

• Fix ownership of /var/spool/slurm on new installations and upgrade (bsc#1158696).

• Fix permissions of slurmdbd.conf (bsc#1155784, CVE-2019-19727).

• Fix %posttrans macro _res_update to cope with added newline (bsc#1153259).

• Add package slurm-webdoc which sets up a web server to provide the documentation for the version shipped.

• Move srun from 'slurm' to 'slurm-node': srun is required on the nodes as well so sbatch will work. 'slurm-node' is a requirement when 'slurm' is installed (bsc#1153095).

• Updated to 18.08.8 for fixing (CVE-2019-12838, bsc#1140709,…

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)

USN-4781-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Slurm. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (CVE-2016-10030) and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (CVE-2018-10995).

Original advisory details:

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)