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[SECURITY] [DSA 3543-1] oar security update

Posted on 05 April 2016
Debian Security Advisory

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3543-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
April 05, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : oar
CVE ID : CVE-2016-1235

Emmanuel Thome discovered that missing sanitising in the oarsh command
of OAR, a software used to manage jobs and resources of HPC clusters,
could result in privilege escalation.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.5.2-3+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.4-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your oar packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

 

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