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DESCRIPTION: This advisory to users running PBS Professional is to alert them to a security vulnerability. This is a privilege escalation vulnerability that potentially affects all users. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could gain administrator privilege (root access) on PBS server (aka headnode) hosts. The attacker would need to be an authenticated user authorized to submit jobs on the cluster. SEVERITY RATING: Critical RECOMMENDATION: We recommend that all users running their PBS Professional server on a Linux and/or Unix based OS apply this update in a timely fashion. AFFECTED SOFTWARE: All currently released Linux and Unix versions of PBS Professional SCHEDULE OF AVAILABILITY OF UPDATE: PBS Professional patch is applicable to all affected releases 10.x and newer (attached to this bulletin) PBS Professional 12.2.0 (available Dec 2013) NOTE: We advise users running any 10.x or prior release upgrade to at least v10.4.7. SECURITY UPDATE: The updates and packages are being made available to all users running PBS Professional software. Please refer to the release notes and installation instructions included in each package. INSTRUCTIONS TO OBTAIN UPDATE: Updates are available through the normal PBS Professional release mechanisms. |
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