RHSA-2022:7187 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: device-mapper-multipath security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · October 26, 2022
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for device-mapper-multipath is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The device-mapper-multipath packages provide tools that use the device-mapper multipath kernel module to manage multipath devices.
Security Fix(es):
- device-mapper-multipath: Authorization bypass, multipathd daemon listens for client connections on an abstract Unix socket (CVE-2022-41974)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.