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Old 10-17-2008
Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVA-2008:148 ] pulseaudio
LinuxSecurity.com: Some issues relating to thread cancellation have been discovered in the pulseaudio package shipped with Mandriva Linux 2009.0. These issues could result in the crash of an application acting as a pulseaudio client. This condition is greatly exacerbated when the client is unable to connect to the pulseaudio server. Due to the fact that libcanberra is used to play event sounds in GTK apps, this problem could present itself when running GTK applications as root which, under some circumstances, was unable to connect to the user's pulseaudio daemon.

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padsp(1)						      General Commands Manual							  padsp(1)

NAME

       padsp - PulseAudio OSS Wrapper

SYNOPSIS

       padsp [options] PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS ...]

       padsp -h

DESCRIPTION

       padsp  starts the specified program and redirects its access to OSS compatible audio devices (/dev/dsp and auxiliary devices) to a PulseAu-
       dio sound server.

       padsp uses the $LD_PRELOAD environment variable that is interpreted by ld.so(8) and thus does not work for  SUID  binaries  and	statically
       built executables.

       Equivalent to using padsp is starting an application with $LD_PRELOAD set to libpulsedsp.so

OPTIONS

       -h | --help
	      Show help.

       -s SERVER
	      Set the PulseAudio server to connect to.

       -n NAME
	      The client application name that shall be passed to the server when connecting.

       -m NAME
	      The stream name that shall be passed to the server when creating a stream.

       -M     Disable /dev/mixer emulation.

       -S     Disable /dev/sndstat emulation.

       -D     Disable /dev/dsp emulation.

       -d     Enable debug output.

AUTHORS

       The PulseAudio Developers <mzchyfrnhqvb (at) 0pointer (dot) net>; PulseAudio is available from http://pulseaudio.org/

SEE ALSO

       pulseaudio(1), pasuspender(1), ld.so(8)

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