| Name | CVE-2020-27746 |
| Description | Slurm before 19.05.8 and 20.x before 20.02.6 exposes Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor because xauth for X11 magic cookies is affected by a race condition in a read operation on the /proc filesystem. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4841-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 974722 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| slurm-llnl (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 18.08.5.2-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| slurm-wlm (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 20.11.7+really20.11.4-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, sid | 21.08.8.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
- slurm-wlm <not-affected> (Fixed with first upload to Debian with renamed source package)
[stretch] - slurm-llnl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://www.schedmd.com/news.php?id=240
https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2020/000045.html
https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/07309deb45c33e735e191faf9dd31cca1054a15c
slurm-wlm/20.02.6-1 changed the source package name and included the fix
Introduced by: https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/e3140b7f8d96ced9dc85089caa65dd7c6be396fd (slurm-17-11-0-0rc1)