CVE-2009-0115

device-mapper-multipath: insecure permissions on multipathd.sock

Published Mar 30, 2009 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1767-1 New multipath-tools packages fix denial of service
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