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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200704-04">
+ <title>OpenPBS: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ OpenPBS contains unspecified vulnerabilities which may allow for the remote
+ execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">openpbs</product>
+ <announced>2007-04-03</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-04-03</revised>
+ <bug>153495</bug>
+ <access>remote, local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-cluster/openpbs" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <vulnerable range="le">2.3.16-r4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ OpenPBS is the original version of the Portable Batch System. It is a
+ flexible batch queueing system developed for NASA in the early to
+ mid-1990s.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ SUSE reported vulnerabilities due to unspecified errors in OpenPBS.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ By unspecified attack vectors an attacker might be able execute
+ arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running openpbs, which
+ might be the root user.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ OpenPBS has been masked in the Portage tree for replacement by Torque.
+ All OpenPBS users should unmerge OpenPBS and switch to Torque.
+ </p>
+ <code>
+
+ # emerge --ask --unmerge sys-cluster/openpbs
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --verbose sys-cluster/torque</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5616">CVE-2006-5616</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-03-26T23:17:18Z">
+ falco
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-03-27T16:50:56Z">
+ falco
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-03-29T21:14:48Z">
+ falco
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>