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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201402-10.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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>