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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : pulseaudio vulnerability (USN-804-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 39851

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Tavis Ormandy, Julien Tinnes, and Yorick Koster discovered that PulseAudio did not safely re-execute itself. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/804-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39851

File Name: ubuntu_USN-804-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulsecore5-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-esound-compat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulsecore9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-lirc-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse-mainloop-glib0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse-mainloop-glib0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-gconf-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulsecore9-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-x11, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse-browse0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-hal-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-gconf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-x11-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-esound-compat-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulsecore5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-hal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse-browse0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-zeroconf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-utils-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-lirc

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1894

CWE: 362

USN: 804-1