Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Base Command and Bright Cluster Managers - November 2024

Updated 12/10/2024 02:36 PM

NVIDIA has released a software update for NVIDIA Base Command and Bright Cluster Managers to address the security issues listed below.

To protect your system, update the CMdaemon package on the head node and in software images.

Go to NVIDIA Product Security.


Details

This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities that this security update addresses and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.

CVE ID Description Vector Base Score Severity CWE Impacts
CVE-2024-0139 NVIDIA Base Command Manager and Bright Cluster Manager for Linux contain an insecure temporary file vulnerability. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service. AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 4.4 Medium CWE‑377 Denial of service

The NVIDIA risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends evaluating the risk to your specific configuration.

Security Updates

The following table lists the NVIDIA products affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update.

CVE IDs Addressed Affected Products Platform or OS Affected Versions Updated Version
CVE‑2024-0139
NVIDIA Base Command Manager Linux Base Command Manager 3, Base Command Manager 10 10.24.09a
NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager Linux Bright Cluster Manager 9.0-9.2 Bright Cluster Manager 9.0-22, 9.1-19, 9.2-17

Notes

Use this security update to resolve the issue as follows:

  1. Update to the most recent version of CMdaemon on the head nodes and in all software images.
  2. Update the nodes by rebooting them or by resynchronizing them against the software image.

Acknowledgements

NVIDIA thanks Abian Blome, Jan Kästle – Siemens Energy for reporting issue CVE-2024-0139

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Revision History

Revision Date Description
1.0 26 November 2024 Initial release

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