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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2008-0008 Detail

Description

The pa_drop_root function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from (1) setresuid, (2) setreuid, (3) setuid, and (4) seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as resource exhaustion.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207214 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://pulseaudio.org/changeset/2100 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28608 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28623 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28738 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28952 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-07.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1476 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:027 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27449 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-573-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0283 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347822 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425481 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39992 CVE, Inc., Red Hat VDB Entry 
https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-January/001228.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00852.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00869.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-0008
NVD Published Date:
01/28/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.