** Description changed: - Confined applications need access to the pulseaudio socket. + Confined applications need access to the pulseaudio socket. Currently + several sockets are available to apps, and some allow performing + dangerous operations, such as loading a module from an arbitrary path. - Unfortunately, this allows them to perform dangerous operations, such as load a module from an arbitrary path. - It also allows them to enumerate installed applications by listing clients. + It also allows them to enumerate installed applications by listing + clients. The Pulseaudio daemon should verify if an application is confined, and if so, restrict access to certain commands. If module loading cannot be disabled for confined applications, perhaps it could be modified to only load modules from trusted system locations.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1211380 Title: pulseaudio socket needs confined app restrictions Status in PulseAudio sound server: New Status in “apparmor” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “apparmor” source package in Saucy: Fix Released Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” source package in Saucy: Fix Released Status in “pulseaudio” source package in Saucy: Won't Fix Status in “apparmor” source package in t-series: Fix Released Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” source package in t-series: Fix Released Status in “pulseaudio” source package in t-series: Confirmed Bug description: Confined applications need access to the pulseaudio socket. Currently several sockets are available to apps, and some allow performing dangerous operations, such as loading a module from an arbitrary path. It also allows them to enumerate installed applications by listing clients. The Pulseaudio daemon should verify if an application is confined, and if so, restrict access to certain commands. If module loading cannot be disabled for confined applications, perhaps it could be modified to only load modules from trusted system locations. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/1211380/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
