Gentoo: GLSA-200704-22 Low Severity: BEAST Denial Of Service

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200704-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: BEAST: Denial of Service Date: April 27, 2007 Bugs: #163146 ID: 200704-22

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in BEAST allowing for a Denial of Service.
Background ========= BEdevilled Audio SysTem is an audio compositor, supporting a wide range of audio formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/beast < 0.7.1 >= 0.7.1
========== BEAST, which is installed as setuid root, fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if seteuid() fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource limits.
Impact ===== ...