CVE-2020-11931

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-11931
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-15 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-05-19 14:26:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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;

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-668

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4355-1: PulseAudio vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Audio-switcher pulseaudio interface auto connect request - snapcraft.io MISC forum.snapcraft.io Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: James Henstridge

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