Chad Vizino reported a vulnerability in torque, a PBS-derived batch processing queueing system. A non-root user could exploit the flaw in the tm_adopt() library call to kill any process, including root-owned ones on any node in a job.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.16+dfsg-1+deb7u4. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.16+dfsg-1.5. We recommend that you upgrade your torque packages.

The TORQUE server dispatches jobs across physically separated machines. It may also be beneficial for single machines to organise the sequential execution of multiple jobs.

torque on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3058.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25