Gentoo: GLSA-200802-07 High Severity: Pulseaudio Privilege Escalation
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February 13, 2008
A vulnerability in pulseaudio may allow a local user to execute actions with escalated privileges.
Summary
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200802-07
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Pulseaudio: Privilege escalation
Date: February 13, 2008
Bugs: #207214
ID: 200802-07
Synopsis
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A vulnerability in pulseaudio may allow a local user to execute actions
with escalated privileges.
Background
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Pulseaudio is a networked sound server with an advanced plugin system.
Affected packages
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1 media-sound/pulseaudio < 0.9.9 >= 0.9.9
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