SB2010060102 - Gentoo update for multipath-tools
Published: June 1, 2010 Updated: September 25, 2016
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2009-0115)
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The Device Mapper multipathing driver (aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath) 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file (aka /var/run/multipathd.sock), which allows local users to send arbitrary commands to the multipath daemon.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.