Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:1110-01 (device-mapper-multipath)

An update for device-mapper-multipath is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

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.

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.

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