Severity: High
Title: Slurm: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: September 22, 2024
Bugs: #631552, #920104
ID: 202409-16

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Slurm, the worst of
which could result in privilege escalation or code execution.

Background
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Slurm is a highly scalable resource manager.

Affected packages
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Package Vulnerable Unaffected
----------------- ------------ ------------
sys-cluster/slurm <= 22.05.3 Vulnerable!

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Slurm. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
=====
Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
=========
Gentoo has discontinued support for Slurm. We recommend that users
unmerge it:

# emerge --ask --depclean "sys-cluster/slurm"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2020-36770
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36770
[ 2 ] CVE-2023-49933
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49933
[ 3 ] CVE-2023-49934
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49934
[ 4 ] CVE-2023-49935
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49935
[ 5 ] CVE-2023-49936
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49936
[ 6 ] CVE-2023-49937
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49937
[ 7 ] CVE-2023-49938
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49938

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202409-16

Concerns?
========
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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belongs to its owner(s).

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