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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1476-1 (pulseaudio)
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.2
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
16 years ago
Modified
Modified
6 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pulseaudio announced via advisory DSA 1476-1.
Insight
Insight
Marcus Meissner discovered that the PulseAudio sound server performed insufficent checks when dropping privileges, which could lead to local privilege escalation. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.5-5etch1. The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain pulseaudio. We recommend that you upgrade your pulseaudio packages.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201476-1