[SA34631] Red Hat update for device-mapper-multipath

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TITLE:
Red Hat update for device-mapper-multipath

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34631

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34631/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issues an update for device-mapper-multipath. This fixes
a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to multipathd creating a
world-writable socket, which can be exploited to e.g. send arbitrary
commands to the multipath daemon.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2009-0411:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0411.html

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