National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0115

Overview

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, nd possibly other operating systenms, 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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-3453

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00236.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-3449

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00231.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1767

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1767

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-128.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-128.htm

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34759

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34759

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34710

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34710

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34694

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34694

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34642

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34642

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34418

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34418

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:008

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:007

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0115

Hyperlink:http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0115

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3-test/repodata/patch-kpartx-6082.xml

Hyperlink:http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3-test/repodata/patch-kpartx-6082.xml