[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-17.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3453
2009-04-09 15:25:22
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Name        : device-mapper-multipath
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 0.4.7
Release     : 17.fc9
URL         : http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/
Summary     : Tools to manage multipath devices using device-mapper
Description :
device-mapper-multipath provides tools to manage multipath devices by instructing the
device-mapper multipath kernel module what to do.
The tools are :
* multipath :   Scan the system for multipath devices and assemble them.
* multipathd :  Detects when paths fail and execs multipath to update things.

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Update Information:

Fix insecure permissions on multipathd.sock (CVE-2009-0115)
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr  7 2009 Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com> - 0.4.8-17
- Fix insecure permissions on multipathd.sock (CVE-2009-0115)
* Mon Jun 23 2008 Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com> -0.4.7-16
- Fix for bz #451415
- /sbin/multipath.static in no longer a symlink to the non-static version.
  However, it still dynamically loads all libraries except libsysfs.
  libsysfs is now statically linked.
* Wed May 21 2008 Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com> -0.4.7-15
- Switch multipath to check "subsystem" instead of "bus"
- Make static versions of multipath and kpartx symlinks to non-static versions
* Fri Feb 29 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> - 0.4.7-14
- fix sparc64
- fix license tag
* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org> - 0.4.7-13
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
* Wed Nov 14 2007 Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com> - 0.4.7-12
- Fixed the dist tag so building will work properly.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #493330 - CVE-2009-0115 device-mapper-multipath: insecure permissions on multipathd.sock
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493330
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update device-mapper-multipath' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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