CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-0008
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-01-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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.
Affected configurations
• pulseaudio pulseaudio 0.9.6
• pulseaudio pulseaudio 0.9.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207214 Third Party Advisory
- http://pulseaudio.org/changeset/2100 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28608 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28623 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28738 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28952 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-07.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1476 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:027 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27449 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-573-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0283 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347822 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425481 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39992 VDB Entry
- https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-January/001228.html Broken Link
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00852.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00869.html Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207214 Third Party Advisory
- http://pulseaudio.org/changeset/2100 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28608 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28623 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28738 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28952 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-07.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1476 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:027 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27449 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-573-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0283 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347822 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425481 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39992 VDB Entry
- https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-January/001228.html Broken Link
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00852.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00869.html Third Party Advisory