CVE-2008-0008: Pulseaudio

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pa_drop_root function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from (1) setresuid, (2) setreuid, (3) setuid, and (4) seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as resource exhaustion.

Affected products

• Pulseaudio Pulseaudio: version 0.9.6 only; version 0.9.8 only

Published 2008-01-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.