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From: "Mikle Kolyada (zlogene)" <zlogene@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa: glsa-201402-10.xml
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:30:22
Message-Id: 20140207203016.EF8052004C@flycatcher.gentoo.org
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3 Added: glsa-201402-10.xml
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5 GLSA 201402-10
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-201402-10.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup
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15 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
16 <?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
17 <?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
18 <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
19 <glsa id="201402-10">
20 <title>PulseAudio: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
21 <synopsis>An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in PulseAudio,
22 possibly allowing symlink attacks.
23 </synopsis>
24 <product type="ebuild">pulseaudio</product>
25 <announced>February 07, 2014</announced>
26 <revised>February 07, 2014: 1</revised>
27 <bug>313329</bug>
28 <access>local</access>
29 <affected>
30 <package name="media-sound/pulseaudio" auto="yes" arch="*">
31 <unaffected range="ge">0.9.22</unaffected>
32 <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.22</vulnerable>
33 </package>
34 </affected>
35 <background>
36 <p>PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes.</p>
37 </background>
38 <description>
39 <p>The pa_make_secure_dir function in core-util.c does not handle temporary
40 files securely.
41 </p>
42 </description>
43 <impact type="normal">
44 <p>A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
45 files with the privileges of the user running the application.
46 </p>
47 </impact>
48 <workaround>
49 <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
50 </workaround>
51 <resolution>
52 <p>All PulseAudio users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
53
54 <code>
55 # emerge --sync
56 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.22"
57 </code>
58
59 </resolution>
60 <references>
61 <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1299">CVE-2009-1299</uri>
62 </references>
63 <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:12:38 +0000">craig</metadata>
64 <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:28:06 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
65 </glsa>