Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pulseaudio announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:152.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:152
Insight
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in pulseaudio:
Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team discovered that pulseaudio, when installed setuid root, does not drop privileges before re-executing itself to achieve immediate bindings. This can be exploited by a user who has write access to any directory on the file system containing /usr/bin to gain local root access. The user needs to exploit a race condition related to creating a hard link (CVE-2009-1894).
This update provides fixes for this vulnerability.
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1894 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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