Security update for multipath-tools (important)

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes
is now available.

Description:

This update for multipath-tools fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2022-41973: Fixed a symlink attack in multipathd. (bsc#1202739)
• CVE-2022-41974: Fixed an authorization bypass issue in multipathd.
  (bsc#1202739)
• Avoid linking to libreadline to avoid licensing issue (bsc#1202616)
• libmultipath: fix find_multipaths_timeout for unknown hardware
  (bsc#1201483)
• multipath-tools: fix “multipath -ll” for Native NVME Multipath devices
  (bsc#1201483)
• multipathd: don’t switch to DAEMON_IDLE during startup (bsc#1199346,
  bsc#1197570)
• multipathd: avoid delays during uevent processing (bsc#1199347)
• multipathd: Don’t keep starting TUR threads, if they always hang.
  (bsc#1199345)
• Fix busy loop with delayed_reconfigure (bsc#1199342)
• multipath.conf: add support for “protocol” subsection in “overrides”
  section to set certain config options by protocol.
• Removed the previously deprecated options getuid_callout, config_dir,
  multipath_dir, pg_timeout
• Add disclaimer about vendor support
• Change built-in defaults for NVMe: group by prio, and immediate failback
• Fixes for minor issues reported by coverity
• Fix for memory leak with uid_attrs
• Updates for built in hardware db
• Logging improvements
• multipathd: use remove_map_callback for delayed reconfigure
• Fix handling of path addition in read-only arrays on NVMe
• Updates of built-in hardware database
• libmultipath: only warn once about unsupported dev_loss_tmo

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

• openSUSE Leap 15.4:

  zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2022-3711=1

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP4:

  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2022-3711=1

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3:

  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2022-3711=1