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PulseAudio Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

PulseAudio is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because the application fails to properly ensure that it has dropped its privileges.

Exploiting this issue could allow attackers to perform certain actions with superuser privileges.

This vulnerability affects versions prior to PulseAudio 0.9.9.