Package : pulseaudio Vulnerability : privilege escalation Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-1894 Debian Bug : 537351
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.
Upgrade instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny - --------------------------------