-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2011-5160 2011-12-04 19:22:50 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : torque Product : Fedora EPEL 4 Version : 2.5.7 Release : 7.el4 URL : http://www.clusterresources.com/products/torque/ Summary : Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager Description : TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations. This package holds just a few shared files and directories.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Fixes a potential segfault in pbs_server.
This torque update corrects a security vulnerability whereby a user connecting to the torque pbs_server could impersonate another user present within the torque batch system.
In addition a memory leak is fixed, previously memory used for sending and receiving data was not being released.
This torque update corrects a security vulnerability whereby a user connecting to the torque pbs_server could impersonate another user present within the torque batch system.
In addition a memory leak is fixed, previously memory used for sending and receiving data was not being released.
This torque update corrects a security vulnerability whereby a user connecting to the torque pbs_server could impersonate another user present within the torque batch system.
In addition a memory leak is fixed, previously memory used for sending and receiving data was not being released.
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[ 1 ] Bug #759141 - pbs_server crash on 'pbsnodes' from client without munge https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759141 [ 2 ] Bug #752079 - Torque and Munge impersonation vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752079 [ 3 ] Bug #758740 - torque 2.5.7 memory leak. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758740 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update torque' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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