Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64476
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1838-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pulseaudio' package(s) announced via the DSA-1838-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pulseaudio' package(s) announced via the DSA-1838-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes discovered that the pulseaudio daemon does not drop privileges before re-executing itself, enabling local attackers to increase their privileges. The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.10-3+lenny1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your pulseaudio packages. Affected Software/OS: 'pulseaudio' package(s) on Debian 5. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.2 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1894 20090717 PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerability http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded 35721 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721 35868 http://secunia.com/advisories/35868 35886 http://secunia.com/advisories/35886 35896 http://secunia.com/advisories/35896 DSA-1838 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838 GLSA-200907-13 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml MDVSA-2009:152 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152 MDVSA-2009:171 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171 USN-804-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1 http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 pulseaudio-suid-privilege-escalation(51804) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
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