Fedora 36: 2022-6ec78b2586 Moderate: Device-Mapper Multipath Attack Fix

device-mapper-multipath provides tools to manage multipath devices by

instructing the device-mapper multipath kernel module what to do.

The tools are :

* multipath - Scan the system for multipath devices and assemble them.

* multipathd - Detects when paths fail and execs multipath to update things.

Security fix for CVE-2022-41973 and CVE-2022-41974

* Wed Oct 26 2022 Benjamin Marzinski - 0.8.7-9

- Add 0040-multipathd-ignore-duplicated-multipathd-command-keys.patch

* Fixes bz #2137414

- Add 0041-multipath-tools-use-run-instead-of-dev-shm.patch

* Fixes bz #2137416

- Resolves: bz #2137414, #2137416

* Tue Aug 23 2022 Benjamin Marzinski - 0.8.7-8.1

- Add 0038-multipathd-Add-missing-ctype-include.patch

- Add 0039-multipathd-replace-libreadline-with-libedit.patch

* replace readline with libedit, to avoid license conflicts. readline

is licensed GPL v3, and multipathd includes code licensed gpl v2

only.

- Require libedit instead of readline

[ 1 ] Bug #2123894 - CVE-2022-41973 device-mapper-multipath: Symlink attack multipathd operates insecurely, as root, in /dev/shm (a sticky, world-writable directory similar to /tmp)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123894

[ 2 ] Bug #2133988 - CVE-2022-41974 device-mapper-multipath: Authorization bypass, multipathd daemon listens for client connections on an abstract Unix socket

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133988

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-6ec78b2586' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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