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Mandriva: Updated pulseaudio packages fix denial of service Print E-mail
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Mandrake Luigi Auriemma found a few programming errors in Pulseaudio, that can be used to crash the Pulseaudio daemon, by authenticated and unauthenticated users. The updated packages fix these issues.
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2008:065
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : pulseaudio
 Date    : March 9, 2008
 Affected: 2007.1
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Problem Description:
 
 Luigi Auriemma found a few programming errors in Pulseaudio, that
 can be used to crash the Pulseaudio daemon, by authenticated and
 unauthenticated users.
 
 The updated packages fix these issues.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1804
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Updated Packages:
 
 Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
 1e4785a246f4cf24966c48440b5f192b  2007.1/i586/libpulseaudio0-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 0a3aeb51c86117f61786221dd2fb935f  2007.1/i586/libpulseaudio0-devel-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 0f32bdef7a2e9cf03a48790664a8346d  2007.1/i586/libpulsecore2-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 d3a9b813e5f323442f45ba0a916221b7  2007.1/i586/pulseaudio-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm 
 86276aa0f85864177b800eb3cc2e6629  2007.1/SRPMS/pulseaudio-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
 b3db652e4dd072ea7e48032d16f52528  2007.1/x86_64/lib64pulseaudio0-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 5796343dfc2727de53c795bc4d2bcf67  2007.1/x86_64/lib64pulseaudio0-devel-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 714de48e6c245e8ca115d6dcab341980  2007.1/x86_64/lib64pulsecore2-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 02aa6d78ae1d79441dbbde8c1a8e2233  2007.1/x86_64/pulseaudio-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 
 86276aa0f85864177b800eb3cc2e6629  2007.1/SRPMS/pulseaudio-0.9.5-1.4mdv2007.1.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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