Bug 1149044 (CVE-2014-3684) - CVE-2014-3684 torque: non-root users able to kill any process on any node in a job
Summary: CVE-2014-3684 torque: non-root users able to kill any process on any node in ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-3684
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1149045 1149046 1149047
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-03 03:00 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:35:07 UTC
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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.
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