PT-2020-14759 · Canonical+1 · Pulseaudio+2

James Henstridge

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Published

2020-11-23

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Updated

2020-12-10

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CVE-2020-16123

CVSS v3.1

4.7

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PulseAudio versions 1:13.99.3-1ubuntu2, 1:13.99.2-1ubuntu2.1, 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8, 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.11, and 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.15
Description An Ubuntu-specific patch in PulseAudio created a race condition where the snap policy module would fail to identify a client connection from a snap as coming from a snap if SCM CREDENTIALS were missing, allowing the snap to connect to PulseAudio without proper confinement. This could be exploited by an attacker to expose sensitive information.
Recommendations For version 1:13.99.3-1ubuntu2, update to this version or later to fix the issue. For version 1:13.99.2-1ubuntu2.1, update to this version or later to fix the issue. For version 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8, update to this version or later to fix the issue. For version 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.11, update to this version or later to fix the issue. For version 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.15, update to this version or later to fix the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Race Condition

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-16123
USN-4640-1

Affected Products

Linuxmint
Pulseaudio
Ubuntu