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.
Published: 2009-07-17
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1838-1 New pulseaudio packages fix privilege escalation
EUVD 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 Ubuntu USN USN-804-1 PulseAudio vulnerability
History

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Pulseaudio Pulseaudio
cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-07-17T16:30:00.920

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-1894

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2009-07-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1894 - Bugzilla

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