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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Slurm vulnerability (USN-8197-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 310125

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8197-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle access control when dealing with RPC traffic through PMI2 and PMIx, which could allow an unprivileged user to send data to an arbitrary unix socket on the host. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8197-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 310125

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8197-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/24/2026

Updated: 4/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29501

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-client-emulator, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurm29, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurmdb26, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurmdb29, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurmdb-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm-torque, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm-emulator, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-slurm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-llnl-torque, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurmdb-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpmi0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurmctld, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurmdbd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-llnl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpmi0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurm-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm-basic-plugins-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurm26, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-llnl-basic-plugins-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sview, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurmd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-llnl-slurmdbd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-llnl-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-llnl-sview

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29501

USN: 8197-1