SUSE SLES12 Security Update : multipath-tools (SUSE-SU-2022:3714-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166450

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2022:3714-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-41974: Fixed an authorization bypass issue in multipathd. (bsc#1202739)
- Avoid linking to libreadline to avoid licensing issue (bsc#1202616)
- Avoid device IO in 'multipath -u' (bsc#1125145, bsc#1131789)
- mpathpersist: optimize for setups with many LUNs (bsc#1134648)
- mpathpersist: add option -f/--batch-file (bsc#1134648)
- libmultipath: get_prio(): really don't reset prio for inaccessible paths (bsc#1118495)
- Upstream bug fixes from dm-devel (bsc#1139369):
multipath: call store_pathinfo with DI_BLACKLIST
- hwtable: add Lenovo DE series (bsc#1125507)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected kpartx and / or multipath-tools packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166450

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3714-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.54

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41974

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kpartx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:multipath-tools

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41974

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3714-1

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