CVE-2011-2193

Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-06-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Terascale Open-Source Resource and Queue Manager (aka TORQUE Resource Manager) 2.x before 2.4.14, 2.5.x before 2.5.6, and 3.x before 3.0.2 allow (1) remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a long Job_Name field in a qsub command to the server, and might allow (2) local users to gain privileges via vectors involving a long host variable in pbs_iff.

Affected products

Clusterresources Torque Resource Manager: 2.1.0, 2.1.0p11, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.6 (+40)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062638.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061645.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/45039
http://secunia.com/advisories/45040
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8304
http://www.clusterresources.com/downloads/torque/CHANGELOGS/torque-2.4.14.CHANGELOG
http://www.clusterresources.com/downloads/torque/CHANGELOGS/torque-2.5.6.CHANGELOG
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2329
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/518885/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48374
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711463
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68151

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