[ MDVSA-2009:152 ] pulseaudio

[dude67]

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Package : pulseaudio
Date : July 17, 2009
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in pulseaudio:

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team discovered
that pulseaudio, when installed setuid root, does not drop privileges
before re-executing itself to achieve immediate bindings. This can
be exploited by a user who has write access to any directory on the
file system containing /usr/bin to gain local root access. The user
needs to exploit a race condition related to creating a hard link
(CVE-2009-1894).

This update provides fixes for this vulnerability.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-1894
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