Debian: DSA-1476-1 Moderate: PulseAudio Local Escalation Risk Fix
debian
January 27, 2008
Marcus Meissner discovered that the PulseAudio sound server performed
insufficent checks when dropping privileges, which could lead to local
privilege escalation.
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Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain pulseaudio.
We recommend that you upgrade your pulseaudio packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1233 b34fa2bde59f7573cd7d98e4a4fd3bbb
Size/MD5 checksum: 13795 1e33e53f8b7039660703b69e540c3134
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 26246 26ac18428582ba9bddaa068dac554ef3
Size/MD...
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