7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-0008

Published: 29/01/2008 Updated: 09/01/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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pulseaudio pulseaudio 0.9.6

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Vendor Advisories

It was discovered that PulseAudio did not properly drop privileges when running as a daemon Local users may be able to exploit this and gain privileges The default Ubuntu configuration is not affected ...