On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Tim Wright <t...@splhi.com> wrote:
> Could you possibly explain why is this "Low" importance?

There's a known workaround; it's not reproducible in a default install
of Karmic; it's not reproducible in a dist-upgrade to Karmic from a
default install of Jaunty.

> The bug means that anyone running Pulseaudio (which is everyone,
correct?) is essentially committing a denial-of-service attack on all
machines on their network (unless this only applies to certain
configurations). Surely this is at the very least a "Major" bug?

See above - only applies to certain configurations. Upstream work is
addressing this symptom.

No, it's not anymore a major bug than running a certain bash script
without proper ulimits set would be.

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pulseaudio floods network with multicast packets
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