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...

CVE-2009-0794

Integer overflow in the PulseAudioTargetDataL class in src/java/org/classpath/icedtea/pulseaudio/PulseAudioTargetDataLine.java in Pulse-Java, as used in OpenJDK 1.6.0.0 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service applet crash via a crafted Pulse Audio source data line...

CVE-2009-0794

CVE-2009-0794 is an integer overflow in the PulseAudioTargetDataL class used by Pulse-Java (PulseAudio source data line) in OpenJDK 1.6.0.0 and related products, allowing remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (applet crash). Connected advisories indicate patches for java-1.6.0-openjdk w...

Mandriva Update for pulseaudio MDVA-2008:110 (pulseaudio)

Check for the Version of pulseaudio OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for pulseaudio MDVA-2008:110 pulseaudio Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify...

Mandriva Update for pulseaudio MDVSA-2008:065 (pulseaudio)

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Mandriva Update for drakxtools MDVA-2008:074 (drakxtools)

Check for the Version of drakxtools OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for drakxtools MDVA-2008:074 drakxtools Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify...

Mandriva Update for pulseaudio MDVA-2008:110 (pulseaudio)

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Mandriva Update for pulseaudio MDVSA-2008:027 (pulseaudio)

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Mandriva Update for alsa-plugins MDVA-2008:170 (alsa-plugins)

Check for the Version of alsa-plugins OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for alsa-plugins MDVA-2008:170 alsa-plugins Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

Mandriva Update for pulseaudio MDVSA-2008:065 (pulseaudio)

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Mandriva Update for pulseaudio MDVSA-2008:027 (pulseaudio)

Check for the Version of pulseaudio OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for pulseaudio MDVSA-2008:027 pulseaudio Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modif...