[slurm-users] SLURM on Ubuntu 16.04

[Patrick Goetz]

Hi Chris -

He has 4 nodes and one master.  I'm pretty sure he's not going to be 
using slurmdbd?  Of course something to keep in mind if things work out 
so well that his organization is commanding him to order an additional 
thousand nodes in 6 months.


On 04/25/2018 07:03 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 26/04/18 09:58, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> 
>> Most importantly you will want to be sure that they have backported the
>> patch to close CVE-2018-7033 (fixed in 17.11.5).
> 
> Went and found their sources, there is no mention of this being fixed
> in the proposed version, so it seems that bionic will ship Slurm with
> this CVE unpatched. :-(
> 
> According to: 
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-7033.html
> 
> it is listed as still "needs triage".
> 
> Also unfixed in any Debian release too.
> 
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7033
> 
> cheers,
> Chris