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CVE-2008-0008
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
The pa_drop_root function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from (1) setresuid, (2) setreuid, (3) setuid, and (4) seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as resource exhaustion..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.2/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 10/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Complete
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Complete
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
No
|
- | ||
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
No
|
- | ||
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:2008.0:*:x86-64:*:*:*: |
No
|
- | ||
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:2007.1:*:x86-64:*:*:*: |
No
|
- | ||
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:2007.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
No
|
- | ||
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:2008.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
No
|
- | ||
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | ||
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- |
References
- https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-January/001228.html
- http://pulseaudio.org/changeset/2100
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347822
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425481
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00852.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00869.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27449
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28623
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1476
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:027
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28608
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-573-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28738
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-07.xml
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207214
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28952
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0283
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39992
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