CVE-2009-0115

Publication date 30 March 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
multipath-tools 9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
7.10 gutsy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

jdstrand

all versions of multipath-tools adjust the umask of the multipath socket. In 9.04 and later this is 1000--set-umask-in-multipathd.patch. In other releases the patch is applied inline. the upstream patches are different, and can be found here: 7395bcda3a218df2eab1617df54628af0dc3456e 0a0319d381249760c71023edbe0ac9c093bb4a74

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H