Pulseaudio Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

PulseAudio is an open source audio system for POSIX OS. The system is primarily used for audio transmission, among other things. A security vulnerability exists in PulseAudio. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access control and record audio...

CVE-2020-11931

An Ubuntu-specific modification to Pulseaudio to provide security mediation for Snap-packaged applications was found to have a bypass of intended access restriction for snaps which plugs any of pulseaudio, audio-playback or audio-record via unloading the pulseaudio snap policy module. This issue...

CVE-2020-11931

An Ubuntu-specific modification to Pulseaudio to provide security mediation for Snap-packaged applications was found to have a bypass of intended access restriction for snaps which plugs any of pulseaudio, audio-playback or audio-record via unloading the pulseaudio snap policy module. This issue...

Design/Logic Flaw

An Ubuntu-specific modification to Pulseaudio to provide security mediation for Snap-packaged applications was found to have a bypass of intended access restriction for snaps which plugs any of pulseaudio, audio-playback or audio-record via unloading the pulseaudio snap policy module. This issue...

CVE-2020-11931

CVE-2020-11931 describes an Ubuntu-specific modification to PulseAudio that mediates snap access but allows bypassing the intended access restriction for Snap-enabled audio interfaces by unloading the PulseAudio snap policy module. Affected are PulseAudio versions listed in the entry (prior to sp...

CVE-2020-11931 Ubuntu modifications to pulseaudio to provide snap security enforcement could be unloaded

An Ubuntu-specific modification to Pulseaudio to provide security mediation for Snap-packaged applications was found to have a bypass of intended access restriction for snaps which plugs any of pulseaudio, audio-playback or audio-record via unloading the pulseaudio snap policy module. This issue...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4355-1)

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : PulseAudio vulnerability (USN-4355-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4355-1 advisory. PulseAudio in Ubuntu contains additional functionality to mediate audio recording for snap packages and it was discovered that this...

USN-4355-1 pulseaudio vulnerability

PulseAudio in Ubuntu contains additional functionality to mediate audio recording for snap packages and it was discovered that this functionality did not mediate PulseAudio module unloading. An attacker-controlled snap with only the audio-playback interface connected could exploit this to bypass...

USN-4355-1: PulseAudio vulnerability

PulseAudio in Ubuntu contains additional functionality to mediate audio recording for snap packages and it was discovered that this functionality did not mediate PulseAudio module unloading. An attacker-controlled snap with only the audio-playback interface connected could exploit this to bypass...

CVE-2020-11931

An Ubuntu-specific modification to Pulseaudio to provide security mediation for Snap-packaged applications was found to have a bypass of intended access restriction for snaps which plugs any of pulseaudio, audio-playback or audio-record via unloading the pulseaudio snap policy module. This issue...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11931

An Ubuntu-specific modification to Pulseaudio to provide security mediation for Snap-packaged applications was found to have a bypass of intended access restriction for snaps which plugs any of pulseaudio, audio-playback or audio-record via unloading the pulseaudio snap policy module. This issue...

CVE-2018-16263

The PulseAudio system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to control its A2DP MediaEndpoint, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2...

CVE-2018-16263

The PulseAudio system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to control its A2DP MediaEndpoint, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2...

Design/Logic Flaw

The PulseAudio system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to control its A2DP MediaEndpoint, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2...

CVE-2018-16263

The CVE-2018-16263 entry concerns the PulseAudio system service on Tizen. The vulnerability arises from improper D-Bus security policy configurations that allow an unprivileged process to control the A2DP MediaEndpoint. Affected products include Tizen releases before 5.0 M1 and Tizen-based firmwa...

CVE-2018-16263

The PulseAudio system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to control its A2DP MediaEndpoint, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2...

EvilGnome: A New Backdoor Implant Spies On Linux Desktop Users

Security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Linux spyware that's currently fully undetected across all major antivirus security software products, and includes rarely seen functionalities with regards to most Linux malware, The Hacker News learned. It's a known fact that there are a very...

Tor Linux Sandbox Breakout Via X11

Tor: Linux sandbox breakout via X11 From inside the Linux sandbox described in https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-70-released, it is still possible to talk to the X server without any restrictions. This means that a compromised browser can e.g. use the XTEST X protocol extension at...

Tor (Linux) - X11 Linux Sandbox Breakout

Tor Linux - X11 Linux Sandbox Breakout / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1293&desc=2 EDIT: I mixed up two different sandboxes; see the comment below for a correction. From inside the Linux sandbox described in , it is still possible to talk to the X server withou...