Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2770-1 torque -- authentication bypass
- Date Reported:
- 09 Oct 2013
- Affected Packages:
- torque
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 722306.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4319. - More information:
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John Fitzpatrick of MWR InfoSecurity discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in torque, a PBS-derived batch processing queueing system.
The torque authentication model revolves around the use of privileged ports. If a request is not made from a privileged port then it is assumed not to be trusted or authenticated. It was found that pbs_mom does not perform a check to ensure that connections are established from a privileged port.
A user who can run jobs or login to a node running pbs_server or pbs_mom can exploit this vulnerability to remotely execute code as root on the cluster by submitting a command directly to a pbs_mom daemon to queue and run a job.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.8+dfsg-9squeeze2.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.16+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your torque packages.