| Name | CVE-2017-15566 |
| Description | Insecure SPANK environment variable handling exists in SchedMD Slurm before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2, allowing privilege escalation to root during Prolog or Epilog execution. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4023-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 880530 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| slurm-llnl (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 14.03.9-5+deb8u5 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 16.05.9-1+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 18.08.5.2-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - slurm-llnl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[wheezy] - slurm-llnl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4228 (not public)
Fixed by: https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/b30e9e9ee2ade6951bfaf28e15ef77325a206971