Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pulseaudio
References: DSA-1476-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1476) MDVSA-2008:027 (http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:027) Quoting DSA-1476-1: "Marcus Meissner discovered that the PulseAudio sound server performed insufficent checks when dropping privileges, which could lead to local privilege escalation." ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Visibility changed to: Public ** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi- bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-0008 -- [pulseaudio] [CVE-2008-0008] programming error which could lead to localprivilege escalation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186571 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
