CVE-2008-0008

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users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as resource exhaustion."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "La funci\u00f3n pa_drop_root en PulseAudio versi\u00f3n 0.9.8, y una cierta build 0.9.9, no comprueba los valores de retorno de llamadas (1) setresuid, (2) setreuid, (3) setuid y (4) seteuid, cuando intenta perder privilegios, lo que podr\u00eda permitir a usuarios locales alcanzar privilegios causando que esas llamadas fallen por ataques tales como el agotamiento de recursos."}], "lastModified": "2025-04-09T00:30:58.490", "configurations": [{"nodes": [{"negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:2007.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "vulnerable": false, "matchCriteriaId": "19D64247-F0A0-4984-84EA-B63FC901F002"}, {"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:2007.1:*:x86_64:*:*:*:*:*", "vulnerable": false, "matchCriteriaId": "316AA6EB-7191-479E-99D5-40DA79E340E7"}, {"criteria": 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