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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: USN-804-1 Moderate: PulseAudio Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Regional threat actors might take advantage of the PulseAudio flaw to obtain administrative access in Ubuntu versions. Update provided immediately.
Tavis Ormandy and Yorick Koster discovered that PulseAudio did notsafely re-execute itself

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security advisory moderate privilege escalation Ubuntu local attack PulseAudio

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pulseaudio vulnerability

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate privilege escalation Ubuntu local attack PulseAudio

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