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CVE-2009-0115

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2009-03-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The Device Mapper multipathing driver (aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath) 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, 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.

Affected Platforms

Avaya Messaging Storage ServerChristophe.Varoqui Multipath-ToolsFedoraproject FedoraDebian Debian LinuxNovell Open Enterprise ServerSuse Linux Enterprise DesktopOpensuse OpensuseAvaya Message NetworkingAvaya Intuity Audix LxJuniper Ctpview

Weakness Type

CWE-732

References