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Improper Authorization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kpartx  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KPARTX-3062513
  • published25 Oct 2022
  • disclosed24 Oct 2022
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Introduced: 24 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-41974  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-285  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kpartx package and not the kpartx package as distributed by RHEL.

multipath-tools 0.7.0 through 0.9.x before 0.9.2 allows local users to obtain root access, as exploited alone or in conjunction with CVE-2022-41973. Local users able to write to UNIX domain sockets can bypass access controls and manipulate the multipath setup. This can lead to local privilege escalation to root. This occurs because an attacker can repeat a keyword, which is mishandled because arithmetic ADD is used instead of bitwise OR.

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