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  "summary": "CVE-2022-41973 is fixed in 14 products on 1 platform, first by kpartx 0.8.3-1ubuntu2.1, released October 24, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "device-mapper-multipath: The device-mapper-multipath packages provide tools that use the device-mapper multipath kernel module to manage multi...",
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