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USN-804-1: PulseAudio vulnerability

16 July 2009

PulseAudio vulnerability

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Releases

Packages

Details

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.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References