CVE-2008-0008

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu's pulseaudio: 0.9.6, 0.9.8

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207214
http://pulseaudio.org/changeset/2100
http://secunia.com/advisories/28608
http://secunia.com/advisories/28623
http://secunia.com/advisories/28738
http://secunia.com/advisories/28952
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-07.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1476
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:027
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27449
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-573-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0283

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