[SECURITY] [DSA 1838-1] New pulseaudio packages fix privilege escalation

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1838-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer July 18, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

PulseAudio race conditions

Race condition on temporary files creation allow symlink attack...

PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerability

------------------------------------------------------------------------ PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerability ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yorick Koster, June 2009...

DSA-1838-1 pulseaudio - privilege escalation

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Race condition

Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LDBINDNOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink...

CVE-2009-1894

Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LDBINDNOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1894

Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LDBINDNOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink...

CVE-2009-1894

Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LDBINDNOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink...

CVE-2009-1894

Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LDBINDNOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink...

CVE-2009-1894

CVE-2009-1894 describes a local privilege-escalation in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 caused by a race when a hard link is created and LD_BIND_NOW is set to 1, followed by execv on the target of /proc/self/exe. The issue allows a local user to gain elevated privileges due to an insecure se...

CVE-2009-1894

Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LDBINDNOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink...

CVE-2009-1894

Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LDBINDNOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink...

GLSA-200907-13 : PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200907-13 PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team discovered that the pulseaudio binary is installed setuid root, and does not drop privileges before re-executing itself...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : pulseaudio vulnerability (USN-804-1)

Tavis Ormandy, Julien Tinnes, and Yorick Koster discovered that PulseAudio did not safely re-execute itself. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory...

USN-804-1: PulseAudio vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy, Julien Tinnes, and Yorick Koster discovered that PulseAudio did not safely re-execute itself. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges...

PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation

Background PulseAudio is a network-enabled sound server with an advanced plug-in system. Description Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team discovered that the pulseaudio binary is installed setuid root, and does not drop privileges before re-executing itself. The vulnerabili...

MDVA-2008:148 : pulseaudio

Some issues relating to thread cancellation have been discovered in the pulseaudio package shipped with Mandriva Linux 2009.0. These issues could result in the crash of an application acting as a pulseaudio client. This condition is greatly exacerbated when the client is unable to connect to the...

MDVA-2008:110 : pulseaudio

The pulseaudio package shipped with Mandriva 2008 Spring does not remember a default device setting across sessions. If a user were to use pavucontrol to select an alternate default device, it will only work for that session. Logging out then back in again will revert back to the system default. ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pulseaudio (MDVSA-2008:027)

A programming flaw was found in Pulseaudio versions older than 0.9.9, by which a local user can gain root access, if pulseaudio is installed as a setuid to root binary, which is the recommended configuration. The updated packages fix this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pulseaudio (MDVSA-2008:065)

Luigi Auriemma found a few programming errors in Pulseaudio, that can be used to crash the Pulseaudio daemon, by authenticated and unauthenticated users. The updated packages fix these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...