Fedora EPEL 4 Update: torque-2.5.7-7.el4

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-5160
2011-12-04 19:22:50
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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.

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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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References:

  [ 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
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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