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.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Debian DSA |
DSA-1838-1 | New pulseaudio packages fix privilege escalation |
EUVD |
EUVD-2009-1889 | 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-804-1 | PulseAudio vulnerability |
References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.737Z
Reserved: 2009-06-02T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2009-1894
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Status : Modified
Published: 2009-07-17T16:30:00.920
Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467
Link: CVE-2009-1894
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DSA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN