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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201402-10">
+ <title>PulseAudio: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
+ <synopsis>An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in PulseAudio,
+ possibly allowing symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">pulseaudio</product>
+ <announced>2014-02-07</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2014-02-07</revised>
+ <bug>313329</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-sound/pulseaudio" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.9.22</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.22</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>The pa_make_secure_dir function in core-util.c does not handle temporary
+ files securely.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
+ files with the privileges of the user running the application.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All PulseAudio users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.22"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1299">CVE-2009-1299</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-08T22:12:38Z">craig</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-02-07T20:28:06Z">Zlogene</metadata>
+</glsa>