Information Exposure Affecting pulseaudio/pulseaudio package, versions [,1.99.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PULSEAUDIOPULSEAUDIO-2379539
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 May 2020

CVE-2020-11931  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pulseaudio/pulseaudio to version 1.99.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An Ubuntu-specific modification to Pulseaudio to provide security mediation for Snap-packaged applications was found to have a bypass of intended access restriction for snaps which plugs any of pulseaudio, audio-playback or audio-record via unloading the pulseaudio snap policy module. This issue affects: pulseaudio 1:8.0 versions prior to 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.12; 1:11.1 versions prior to 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.7; 1:13.0 versions prior to 1:13.0-1ubuntu1.2; 1:13.99.1 versions prior to 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.2;

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