Debian Security Advisory DSA 2472-1 (gridengine)

The remote host is missing an update to gridengine announced via advisory DSA 2472-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb24721.nasl 6612 2017-07-07 12:08:03Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2472-1 gridengine Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc...

Debian DSA-2472-1 : gridengine - privilege escalation

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. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...