<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200704-04"> <title>OpenPBS: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> OpenPBS contains unspecified vulnerabilities which may allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">openpbs</product> <announced>April 03, 2007</announced> <revised>April 03, 2007: 01</revised> <bug>153495</bug> <access>remote, local</access> <affected> <package name="sys-cluster/openpbs" auto="yes" arch="*"> <vulnerable range="le">2.3.16-r4</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> OpenPBS is the original version of the Portable Batch System. It is a flexible batch queueing system developed for NASA in the early to mid-1990s. </p> </background> <description> <p> SUSE reported vulnerabilities due to unspecified errors in OpenPBS. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p> By unspecified attack vectors an attacker might be able execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running openpbs, which might be the root user. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> OpenPBS has been masked in the Portage tree for replacement by Torque. All OpenPBS users should unmerge OpenPBS and switch to Torque. </p> <code> # emerge --ask --unmerge sys-cluster/openpbs # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --verbose sys-cluster/torque</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5616">CVE-2006-5616</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:17:18 +0000"> falco </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:50:56 +0000"> falco </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:14:48 +0000"> falco </metadata> </glsa>