CVE-2020-27745

This update for slurm fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2020-27745: PMIx - fix potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem() (bsc#1178890).
• CVE-2020-27746: X11 forwarding - fix potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

This update for slurm fixes the following issues:

• Updated to 20.02.6:
  • CVE-2020-27745: PMIx - fix potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem() (bsc#1178890).
  • CVE-2020-27746: X11 forwarding - fix potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).
  • Added support for openPMIx (bsc#1173805).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

This update for slurm_18_08 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2020-27745: Fixed a potential buffer overflow from use of unpackmem (bsc#1178890).
• CVE-2020-27746: Fixed a potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for slurm_18_08 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2020-27745: Fixed a potential buffer overflow from use of unpackmem (bsc#1178890).
• CVE-2020-27746: Fixed a potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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 slurm fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2020-27745: PMIx - fix potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem() (bsc#1178890).
• CVE-2020-27746: X11 forwarding - fix potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).

This update for slurm fixes the following issues:

• Updated to 20.02.6:
  • CVE-2020-27745: PMIx - fix potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem() (bsc#1178890).
  • CVE-2020-27746: X11 forwarding - fix potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).
  • Added support for openPMIx (bsc#1173805).

This update for slurm_18_08 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2020-27745: Fixed a potential buffer overflow from use of unpackmem (bsc#1178890).
• CVE-2020-27746: Fixed a potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).

This update for slurm_18_08 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2020-27745: Fixed a potential buffer overflow from use of unpackmem (bsc#1178890).
• CVE-2020-27746: Fixed a potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).

This update for slurm_17_11 fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2020-27745: Fixed potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem() (bsc#1178890).
• CVE-2020-27746: Fixed a potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).
• Fixed %posttrans macro _res_update to cope with added newline (bsc#1153259).
• Fixed permissions of slurmdbd.conf (bsc#1155784).

This update for slurm_20_02 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2020-27745: Fixed a potential buffer overflow from use of unpackmem (bsc#1178890).
• CVE-2020-27746: Fixed a potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command (bsc#1178891).

Non-security issues fixed:

• Updated to 20.02.6. Full log and details available at:

  • https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2020/000045.html

• Updated to 20.02.5, changes:

• Fix leak of TRESRunMins when job time is changed with --time-min
• pam_slurm - explicitly initialize slurm config to support configless mode.
• scontrol - Fix exit code when creating/updating reservations with wrong Flags.
• When a GRES has a no_consume flag, report 0 for allocated.
• Fix cgroup cleanup by jobacct_gather/cgroup.
• When creating reservations/jobs don't allow counts on a feature unless using an XOR.
• Improve number of boards discovery
• Fix updating a reservation NodeCnt on a zero-count reservation.
• slurmrestd - provide an explicit error messages when PSK auth fails.
• cons_tres - fix job requesting single gres per-node getting two or more nodes with less CPUs than requested per-task.
• cons_tres - fix calculation of cores when using gres and cpus-per-task.
• cons_tres - fix job not getting access to socket without GPU or with less than --gpus-per-socket when not enough cpus available on required socket and not using --gres-flags=enforce binding.
• Fix HDF5 type version build error.
• Fix creation of CoreCnt only reservations when the first node isn't available.
• Fix wrong DBD Agent queue size in sdiag when using accounting_storage/none.
• Improve job constraints XOR option logic.
• Fix preemption of hetjobs when needed nodes not in leader component.
• Fix wrong bit_or() messing potential preemptor jobs node bitmap, causing bad node deallocations and even allocation of nodes from other partitions.
• Fix double-deallocation of preempted non-leader hetjob components.
• slurmdbd - prevent truncation of the step nodelists over 4095.
• Fix nodes remaining in drain state state after rebooting with ASAP option.

• changes from 20.02.4:

• srun - suppress job step creation warning message when waiting on PrologSlurmctld.
• slurmrestd - fix incorrect return values in data_list_for_each() functions.
• mpi/pmix - fix issue where HetJobs could fail to launch.
• slurmrestd - set content-type header in responses.
• Fix cons_res GRES overallocation for --gres-flags=disable-binding.
• Fix cons_res incorrectly filtering cores with respect to GRES locality for --gres-flags=disable-binding requests.
• Fix regression where a dependency on multiple jobs in a single array using underscores would only add the first job.
• slurmrestd - fix corrupted output due to incorrect use of memcpy().
• slurmrestd - address a number of minor Coverity warnings.
• Handle retry failure when slurmstepd is communicating with srun correctly.
• Fix jobacct_gather possibly duplicate stats when _is_a_lwp error shows up.
• Fix tasks binding to GRES which are closest to the allocated CPUs.
• Fix AMD GPU ROCM 3.5 support.
• Fix handling of job arrays in sacct when querying specific steps.
• slurmrestd - avoid fallback to local socket authentication if JWT authentication is ill-formed.
• slurmrestd - restrict ability of requests to use different authentication plugins.
• slurmrestd - unlink named unix sockets before closing.
• slurmrestd - fix invalid formatting in openapi.json.
• Fix batch jobs stuck in CF state on FrontEnd mode.
• Add a separate explicit error message when rejecting changes to active node features.
• cons_common/job_test - fix slurmctld SIGABRT due to double-free.
• Fix updating reservations to set the duration correctly if updating the start time.
• Fix update reservation to promiscuous mode.
• Fix override of job tasks count to max when ntasks-per-node present.
• Fix min…

This update for slurm_20_02 fixes the following issues:

Updated to 20.02.6, addresses two security fixes:

• PMIx - fix potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem(). CVE-2020-27745 (bsc#1178890)
• X11 forwarding - fix potential leak of the magic cookie when sent as an argument to the xauth command. CVE-2020-27746 (bsc#1178891)

And many other bugfixes, full log and details available at:

• https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2020/000045.html

Updated to 20.02.5, changes:

• Fix leak of TRESRunMins when job time is changed with --time-min
• pam_slurm - explicitly initialize slurm config to support configless mode.
• scontrol - Fix exit code when creating/updating reservations with wrong Flags.
• When a GRES has a no_consume flag, report 0 for allocated.
• Fix cgroup cleanup by jobacct_gather/cgroup.
• When creating reservations/jobs don't allow counts on a feature unless using an XOR.
• Improve number of boards discovery
• Fix updating a reservation NodeCnt on a zero-count reservation.
• slurmrestd - provide an explicit error messages when PSK auth fails.
• cons_tres - fix job requesting single gres per-node getting two or more nodes with less CPUs than requested per-task.
• cons_tres - fix calculation of cores when using gres and cpus-per-task.
• cons_tres - fix job not getting access to socket without GPU or with less than --gpus-per-socket when not enough cpus available on required socket and not using --gres-flags=enforce binding.
• Fix HDF5 type version build error.
• Fix creation of CoreCnt only reservations when the first node isn't available.
• Fix wrong DBD Agent queue size in sdiag when using accounting_storage/none.
• Improve job constraints XOR option logic.
• Fix preemption of hetjobs when needed nodes not in leader component.
• Fix wrong bit_or() messing potential preemptor jobs node bitmap, causing bad node deallocations and even allocation of nodes from other partitions.
• Fix double-deallocation of preempted non-leader hetjob components.
• slurmdbd - prevent truncation of the step nodelists over 4095.
• Fix nodes remaining in drain state state after rebooting with ASAP option.

changes from 20.02.4:

• srun - suppress job step creation warning message when waiting on PrologSlurmctld.
• slurmrestd - fix incorrect return values in data_list_for_each() functions.
• mpi/pmix - fix issue where HetJobs could fail to launch.
• slurmrestd - set content-type header in responses.
• Fix cons_res GRES overallocation for --gres-flags=disable-binding.
• Fix cons_res incorrectly filtering cores with respect to GRES locality for --gres-flags=disable-binding requests.
• Fix regression where a dependency on multiple jobs in a single array using underscores would only add the first job.
• slurmrestd - fix corrupted output due to incorrect use of memcpy().
• slurmrestd - address a number of minor Coverity warnings.
• Handle retry failure when slurmstepd is communicating with srun correctly.
• Fix jobacct_gather possibly duplicate stats when _is_a_lwp error shows up.
• Fix tasks binding to GRES which are closest to the allocated CPUs.
• Fix AMD GPU ROCM 3.5 support.
• Fix handling of job arrays in sacct when querying specific steps.
• slurmrestd - avoid fallback to local socket authentication if JWT authentication is ill-formed.
• slurmrestd - restrict ability of requests to use different authentication plugins.
• slurmrestd - unlink named unix sockets before closing.
• slurmrestd - fix invalid formatting in openapi.json.
• Fix batch jobs stuck in CF state on FrontEnd mode.
• Add a separate explicit error message when rejecting changes to active node features.
• cons_common/job_test - fix slurmctld SIGABRT due to double-free.
• Fix updating reservations to set the duration correctly if updating the start time.
• Fix update reservation to promiscuous mode.
• Fix override of job tasks count to max when…

This update for slurm fixes the following issues:

CVE-2020-27745: PMIx - fix potential buffer overflows from use of unpackmem(). (bsc#1178890)

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,…

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