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Ubuntu: USN-4355-1 (CVE-2020-11931): PulseAudio vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4355-1 (CVE-2020-11931): PulseAudio vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/12/2020
Created
06/26/2020
Added
06/24/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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;

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-pulseaudio

References

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