[Secure-testing-team] Bug#880530: slurm-llnl: CVE-2017-15566

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: slurm-llnl
Version: 17.02.7-1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4228
Control: found -1 16.05.9-1

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for slurm-llnl.

CVE-2017-15566[0]:
| Insecure SPANK environment variable handling exists in SchedMD Slurm
| before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2,
| allowing privilege escalation to root during Prolog or Epilog
| execution.

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-2017-15566
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15566
[1] https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4228
[2] https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/b30e9e9ee2ade6951bfaf28e15ef77325a206971

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)