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Fedora 16 : torque-3.0.3-2.fc16 (2011-16128)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57001

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This torque update corrects a security vulnerability whereby a user connecting to the torque pbs_server could impersonate another user present within the torque batch system.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected torque package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752079

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f7fca9d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57001

File Name: fedora_2011-16128.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/5/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:torque, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2011

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2011-16128