<?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>2014-02-07</announced> <revised count="1">2014-02-07</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 ">=media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.22" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1299">CVE-2009-1299</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-08T22:12:38Z">craig</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-02-07T20:28:06Z">Zlogene</metadata> </glsa>