CVE-2019-6438

Publication date 31 January 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

SchedMD Slurm before 17.11.13 and 18.x before 18.08.5 mishandles 32-bit systems.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that Slurm mishandles 23-bit systems.A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
slurm-llnl 23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
21.10 impish Not in release
21.04 hirsute Not in release
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan Not in release
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 17.11.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 15.08.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.6.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm4

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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