CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1894
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-07-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LD_BIND_NOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink.
Affected configurations
• pulseaudio pulseaudio 0.9.9
• pulseaudio pulseaudio 0.9.10
• pulseaudio pulseaudio 0.9.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html blog.cr0.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35868 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35886 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35896 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html taviso.decsystem.org
- http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602 www.akitasecurity.nl
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721 Exploit, Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 admin.fedoraproject.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 Exploit, Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html blog.cr0.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35868 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35886 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35896 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html taviso.decsystem.org
- http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602 www.akitasecurity.nl
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721 Exploit, Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 admin.fedoraproject.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 Exploit, Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com