Bug#522813: multipath-tools: CVE-2009-0115 insecure permissions of control socket

[Nico Golde]

Package: multipath-tools
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for multipath-tools.

CVE-2009-0115[0]:
| multipath-tools in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 through 11.0 and SUSE Linux
| Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0115
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-0115

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