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Gentoo update for pulseaudio
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28952
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Release Date:
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2008-02-14
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Popularity:
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2,559 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Gentoo Linux 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0008
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Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for pulseaudio. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the pulseaudio daemon failing to check whether it has successfully dropped its privileges via "setuid()". This can potentially be exploited to launch the daemon with root privileges, which may allow the user to perform certain actions as the root user.
This is related to:
SA28623
Solution:
Update to "media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.9" or later.
Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-07.xml
Other References:
SA28623:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28623/
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