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gridengine: privilege escalation

Package(s):

gridengine

CVE #(s):

CVE-2012-0208

Created:

May 16, 2012

Updated:

May 16, 2012

Description:

From the Debian advisory:

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.

Alerts:

Debian

DSA-2472-1

2012-05-16

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