[Secure-testing-team] Pulseaudio CVS-2008-0008

Nico Golde debian-secure-testing+ml at ngolde.de
Thu Jan 24 23:02:13 UTC 2008


Hi Sjoerd,
* Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> [2008-01-24 13:54]:
> I've just uploaded pulseaudio 0.9.9-1 to unstable. This fixes CVE-2008-0008,
> pulseaudio didn't check the return codes of setuid, which potentially made it
> possible for a user to prevent it from dropping permissions.
[...] 
Thijs already marked this as fixed in svn. Anyway, just 
wanted to say thanks, there are not many maintainers who 
come and notice us an such cases. Kepp up this work!
Kind regards
Nico
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