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Ubuntu 7.04/7.10 USN-573-1 Critical: PulseAudio Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Local threats may leverage PulseAudio due to permission vulnerabilities. Update necessary for Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10.
It was discovered that PulseAudio did not properly drop privileges when running as a daemon

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security advisory critical Ubuntu local exploit daemon escalation pulseaudio

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-573-1 January 31, 2008

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security advisory critical Ubuntu local exploit daemon escalation pulseaudio

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