SUSE SLED15: kpartx / libdmmp-devel / libdmmp0_2_0 / libmpath0 / multipath-tools / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3711-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166455

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3711-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-41973: Fixed a symlink attack in multipathd. (bsc#1202739)
- CVE-2022-41974: Fixed an authorization bypass issue in multipathd. (bsc#1202739)
- Avoid linking to libreadline to avoid licensing issue (bsc#1202616)
- libmultipath: fix find_multipaths_timeout for unknown hardware (bsc#1201483)
- multipath-tools: fix 'multipath -ll' for Native NVME Multipath devices (bsc#1201483)
- multipathd: don't switch to DAEMON_IDLE during startup (bsc#1199346, bsc#1197570)
- multipathd: avoid delays during uevent processing (bsc#1199347)
- multipathd: Don't keep starting TUR threads, if they always hang. (bsc#1199345)
- Fix busy loop with delayed_reconfigure (bsc#1199342)
- multipath.conf: add support for 'protocol' subsection in 'overrides' section to set certain config options by protocol.
- Removed the previously deprecated options getuid_callout, config_dir, multipath_dir, pg_timeout
- Add disclaimer about vendor support
- Change built-in defaults for NVMe: group by prio, and immediate failback
- Fixes for minor issues reported by coverity
- Fix for memory leak with uid_attrs
- Updates for built in hardware db
- Logging improvements
- multipathd: use remove_map_callback for delayed reconfigure
- Fix handling of path addition in read-only arrays on NVMe
- Updates of built-in hardware database
- libmultipath: only warn once about unsupported dev_loss_tmo

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166455

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3711-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.12

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:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kpartx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:multipath-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:multipath-tools-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdmmp-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdmmp0_2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmpath0

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-2022-41973, CVE-2022-41974

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3711-1

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