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slurm-llnl: privilege escalation

Package(s):slurm-llnl CVE #(s):
Created:April 21, 2009 Updated:April 22, 2009
Description: From the Debian advisory: It was discovered that the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), a cluster job management and scheduling system, did not drop the supplemental groups. These groups may be system groups with elevated privileges, which may allow a valid SLURM user to gain elevated privileges.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1776-1 2009-04-21
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