Home / mailings [RHSA-2023:2948-01] Moderate: device-mapper-multipath security and bug fix update
Posted on 16 May 2023
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: device-mapper-multipath security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2948-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2948
Issue date: 2023-05-16
CVE Names: CVE-2022-41973
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1. Summary:
An update for device-mapper-multipath is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
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: multipathd: insecure handling of files in
/dev/shm leading to symlink attack (CVE-2022-41973)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2110485 - when running iscsiadm login and quick logout the logout didn't run as expected
2123446 - [RHEL8.4] system hung at Started cancel waiting for multipath siblings of x [rhel-8.8.0]
2123894 - CVE-2022-41973 device-mapper-multipath: multipathd: insecure handling of files in /dev/shm leading to symlink attack
2126714 - Multipath segfault after running newest patched version
2128885 - Race condition causes kpartx to create a dm device which uses itself as part of the target, creating an infinite recursion
2141996 - There is no historical-service-time path selector in multipath.conf man page
2155560 - multipath doesn't verify the argument count in config option strings it passes to the kernel
2166468 - multipath devices that need both a table reload and a rename only get renamed on multipathd startup
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source:
device-mapper-multipath-0.8.4-37.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
device-mapper-multipath-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
kpartx-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
libdmmp-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
device-mapper-multipath-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
kpartx-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
libdmmp-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
device-mapper-multipath-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
kpartx-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
libdmmp-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
device-mapper-multipath-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
kpartx-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
libdmmp-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
libdmmp-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8):
aarch64:
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-devel-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-devel-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-devel-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-debugsource-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-devel-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-devel-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
device-mapper-multipath-libs-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.i686.rpm
libdmmp-debuginfo-0.8.4-37.el8.x86_64.rpm
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details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41973
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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