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The following security updates are available for Debian:

[DLA 78-1] torque security update
[DSA 3058-1] torque security update



[DLA 78-1] torque security update


Package : torque
Version : 2.4.8+dfsg-9squeeze5
CVE ID : CVE-2014-3684

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.

[DSA 3058-1] torque security update


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3058-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
October 27, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : torque
CVE ID : CVE-2014-3684
Debian Bug : 763922

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.

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