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Category: Debian Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 17 Mar 2010
Synopsis:

The remote host is missing the DSA-2017 security update

Description:

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the PulseAudio sound server creates a temporary directory with a predictable name. This allows a local attacker to create a Denial of Service condition or possibly disclose sensitive information to unprivileged users. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.10-3+lenny2.

See also:

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2017

Solution:

The Debian project recommends that you upgrade your pulseaudio package.

Risk factor:

High