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
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
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