EGI SVG Advisories

Advisory-SVG-CVE-2016-10030

Title:   EGI SVG Advisory [TLP:WHITE] 'HIGH' risk SLURM vulnerability
         CVE-2016-10030 [EGI-SVG-CVE-2016-10030]

Date:    2017-01-10
Updated:

Affected software and risk
==========================

'HIGH' risk vulnerability concerning SLURM workload manager prolog script,
which may allow a user to assume control of an arbitrary file on the system.

Package : SLURM
CVE ID  : CVE-2016-10030

Actions required/recommended
============================

Sites running SLURM are recommended to update relevant components as soon as
possible if they have not done so already.

Affected software details
=========================

This is fixed in SLURM versions 15.08.13 and 16.05.8

All versions in use prior to these versions are likely to be affected, as the
issue was introduced in 2005.

More information
================

See [R 1] [R 2]

This vulnerability in the SLURM workload manager prolog script allows a user to
assume control of an arbitrary file on the system and allow privilege
escalation.

While this is potentially serious, it is considered by the SVG to be quite
difficult to exploit in the EGI environment.

Mitigation
==========

See [R 1]

Component installation information
==================================

Sites should see [R 1].


TLP and URL
===========

** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution - see
https://go.egi.eu/tlp for distribution restrictions **
URL:   https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-2016-10030

Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites


Comments
========

Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat  at  mailman.egi.eu

If you find or become aware of a vulnerability which is relevant to EGI you may
report it by e-mail to

report-vulnerability at egi.eu

the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look.


References
==========

[R 1] https://www.schedmd.com/news.php?id=178

[R 2] https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-10030

[R 3] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2538

Credit
======

SVG was alerted to this vulnerability by Barbara Krasovec.
Additionally alerts from   Dominik Bartkiewicz and Marcin Stolarek.


Timeline
========

Yyyy-mm-dd  [EGI-SVG-2017-CVE-2016-10030]

2017-01-06 EGI SVG alerted to this issue by Barbara Krasovec.
2017-01-06 Acknowledgement from the EGI SVG to the reporter
2017-01-06 Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out
2017-01-09 EGI SVG Risk Assessment completed
2017-01-10 Advisory/Alert sent to sites


Context
=======

This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's
purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software
vulnerabilities"

The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling
procedure [R 3] in the context of how the software is used in the EGI
infrastructure. It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be
correct. The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending on
how the software is used.

Others may re-use this information provided they:-

1) Respect the provided TLP classification

2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group



On behalf of the EGI SVG,