Debian Security Advisory
DSA-5366-1 multipath-tools -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 01 Mar 2023
- Affected Packages:
- multipath-tools
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1022742.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-41973, CVE-2022-41974. - More information:
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The Qualys Research Labs reported an authorization bypass (CVE-2022-41974) and a symlink attack (CVE-2022-41973) in multipath-tools, a set of tools to drive the Device Mapper multipathing driver, which may result in local privilege escalation.
Please refer to /usr/share/doc/multipath-tools/NEWS.Debian.gz for backwards-incompatible changes in this update.
For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.5-2+deb11u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your multipath-tools packages.
For the detailed security status of multipath-tools please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/multipath-tools