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Fedora 8 : pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8 (2008-0963)

high Nessus Plugin ID 30084

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Jan 23 2008 Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> 0.9.8-5

 - Fix CVE-2008-0008 security issue (#425481)

 - Sun Jan 13 2008 Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> 0.9.8-4.1

 - Actually add content to pulseaudio-0.9.8-create-dot-pulse.patch

 - Make the Source0 tag point to URL instead of a local file

 - Drop the nochown patch; it's not applied at all and no longer needed

 - Thu Nov 29 2007 Lennart Poettering <lpoetter at redhat.com> 0.9.8-4

 - add missing dependency on pulseaudio-utils for pulseaudio-module-x11

 - Thu Nov 29 2007 Lennart Poettering <lpoetter at redhat.com> 0.9.8-3

 - Create ~/.pulse/ if non-existent

 - Thu Nov 29 2007 Lennart Poettering <lpoetter at redhat.com> 0.9.8-2

 - Add missing dependency on jack-audio-connection-kit-devel

 - Wed Nov 28 2007 Lennart Poettering <lpoetter at redhat.com> 0.9.8-1

 - Upgrade to current upstream

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?3872f747

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 30084

File Name: fedora_2008-0963.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-module-gconf, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-module-lirc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-libs-glib2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-module-jack, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-module-x11, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-utils, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-module-zeroconf, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-core-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio-esound-compat, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pulseaudio

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0008

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2008-0963