metadata/glsa/glsa-201402-10.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201402-10">
  <title>PulseAudio: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
  <synopsis>An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in PulseAudio,
    possibly allowing symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pulseaudio</product>
  <announced>February 07, 2014</announced>
  <revised>February 07, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>313329</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-sound/pulseaudio" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.22</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.22</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>The pa_make_secure_dir function in core-util.c does not handle temporary
      files securely.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
      files with the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All PulseAudio users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.22"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1299">CVE-2009-1299</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:12:38 +0000">craig</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:28:06 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>