PT-2008-1682 · Pulseaudio · Pulseaudio

Published 2008-01-28 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2008-0008

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PulseAudio versions 0.9.8 through 0.9.9

Description The issue arises from the pa drop root function not checking return values from calls to setresuid, setreuid, setuid, and seteuid when attempting to drop privileges. This could allow local users to gain privileges by causing these calls to fail through methods like resource exhaustion.

Recommendations For PulseAudio versions 0.9.8 through 0.9.9, consider disabling the pa drop root function until a patch is available to prevent potential privilege escalation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0008

DSA-1476-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11200-1

Affected Products

Pulseaudio

References · 25

• 🔥 http://pulseaudio.org/changeset/2100 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28952 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-07.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28623 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00869.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:027 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0283 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11200-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0008 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28608 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1476 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28738 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0008 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0008 · Security Note
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00852.html · Vendor Advisory