Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2472-1] gridengine security update

[Robert Kim App and Facebook Marketing <evdo.hsdpa () gmail com>]

Guys... Great! That's 2 of 3 issues!

Any eta on the previous bug reports? from my last email?


> Package        : gridengine
> Vulnerability  : privilege escalation
> Problem type   : remote
> Debian-specific: no
> CVE ID         : CVE-2012-0208
>
> Dave Love discovered that users who are allowed to submit jobs to a
> Grid Engine installation can escalate their privileges to root because
> the environment is not properly sanitized before creating processes.
>
> For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
> version 6.2u5-1squeeze1.
>
> For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
> version 6.2u5-6.
>
> We recommend that you upgrade your gridengine packages.


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