Debian Security Update DSA-5547 pmix - security update

[LinuxBot]

Francois Diakhate reported that a race condition in pmix, a library implementing Process Management Interface (PMI) Exascale API, could allow a malicious user to obtain ownership of an arbitrary file on the filesystem when parts of the PMIx library are called by a process with elevated privileges, resulting in privilege escalation. This may happen under the default configuration of certain workload managers, including Slurm.

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