CVE-2008-0008

Description

The pa_drop_root function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from (1) setresuid, (2) setreuid, (3) setuid, and (4) seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as resource exhaustion.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00869.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00852.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39992

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425481

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347822

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0283

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-573-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27449

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:027

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1476

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-07.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/28952

http://secunia.com/advisories/28738

http://secunia.com/advisories/28623

http://secunia.com/advisories/28608

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207214

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3