[Secure-testing-team] Bug#763922: torque: CVE-2014-3684: non-root users able to kill any process on any node in a job

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: torque
Version: 2.4.8+dfsg-9
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream

Dear Torque maintainers,

the following vulnerability was published for torque.

CVE-2014-3684[0]:
non-root users able to kill any process on any node in a job

>From a quick look it looked also applicable to the old (upstrema
end-of-lifed) version we have in Debian, could you confirm that?

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3684
[1] https://github.com/adaptivecomputing/torque/commit/967cdc80150690459a47a35a658abeee0ca6e5cb
    https://github.com/adaptivecomputing/torque/commit/f2f4c950f3d461a249111c8826da3beaafccace9

Regards,
Salvatore