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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2022:7186 Important: Authorization Bypass

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2022
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The significant update to device-mapper-multipath by Red Hat tackles a critical authorization bypass vulnerability within the Linux system.
An update for device-mapper-multipath is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The device-mapper-multipath packages provide tools that use the device-mapper multipath kernel module to manage multipath devices.
Security Fix(es):
* device-mapper-multipath: Authorization bypass, multipathd daemon listens for client connections on an abstract Unix socket (CVE-2022-41974)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat system integrity security impact Linux update authorization bypass device mapper

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41974 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-136.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-136.el7_9.i686.rpm device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-136.el7_9.i686.rpm device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm kpartx-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-136.el7_9.i686.rpm device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm device-mapper-multipath-devel-0.4.9-136.el7_9.i686.rpm device-mapper-multipath-devel-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm libdmmp-0.4.9-136.el7_9.i686.rpm libdmmp-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm libdmmp-devel-0.4.9-136.el7_9.i686.rpm libdmmp-devel-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-136.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-136.el7_9.i686.rpm device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-136.el7_9.x86_64.rpm device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-136.el7_9.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7186-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7186
Issue date: 2022-10-25

Topic

An update for device-mapper-multipath is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat system integrity security impact Linux update authorization bypass device mapper

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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