Debian Security Update DSA-4023 slurm-llnl - security update

[LinuxBot]

Ryan Day discovered that the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), a cluster resource management and job scheduling system, does not properly handle SPANK environment variables, allowing a user permitted to submit jobs to execute code as root during the Prolog or Epilog. All systems using a Prolog or Epilog script are vulnerable, regardless of whether SPANK plugins are in use.

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