Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Grid Engine, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Sun Grid Engine Qmaster Daemon Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29753
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29753/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/6943/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Grid Engine, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be
exploited to cause the Qmaster daemon to crash.
The vulnerability is reported in version 6.1 (please see the vendor's
advisory for details).
SOLUTION:
Apply patches (see vendor's advisory for details).
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Sun (6664502):
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-234822-1
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