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pulseaudio: denial of service

Package(s):pulseaudio CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1299
Created:March 16, 2010 Updated:June 24, 2010
Description: From the Debian advisory:

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.

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:124 2010-06-23
SuSE SUSE-SR:2010:007 2010-03-30
Debian DSA-2017-1 2010-03-15

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