[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0092
2009-07-16 18:24:41
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Name        : pulseaudio
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 0.9.10
Release     : 1.el5.2
URL         : http://pulseaudio.org
Summary     : Improved Linux sound server
Description :
PulseAudio is a sound server for Linux and other Unix like operating
systems. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the
Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESOUND).

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Update Information:

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes, Google Security Team, discovered a flaw in the
way pulseaudio tries to re-exec itself with LD_BIND_NOW environment variable set
to 1 that can be exploited by local user to gain root privilegies.    All users
of pulseaudio are strongly advised to update to these packages.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #510071 - CVE-2009-1894 pulseaudio: privilege escalation flaw via pulseaudio re-exec
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update pulseaudio' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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