Bug 1149044 (CVE-2014-3684)

Summary:	CVE-2014-3684 torque: non-root users able to kill any process on any node in a job
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, extras-orphan, fotis, garrick, karlthered
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1149045, 1149046, 1149047
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-10-03 03:00:50 UTC

Chad Vizino reported a flaw in the TORQUE Resource Manager that would allow non-root users to kill any process, including root-owned ones on any node in a job:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/75

The fixes in the 4.2 branch appear applicable to the version of TORQUE in Fedora and EPEL:

https://github.com/adaptivecomputing/torque/commit/f2f4c950f3d461a249111c8826da3beaafccace9
https://github.com/adaptivecomputing/torque/commit/967cdc80150690459a47a35a658abeee0ca6e5cb

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-10-03 03:01:54 UTC

Created torque tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1149045]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1149046]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1149047]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:35:07 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.