CVE-2009-1894

Summary

CVECVE-2009-1894
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-07-17 16:30:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 01:17:00 UTC
DescriptionRace 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 0.9.10 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 0.9.14 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 0.9.9 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 0.9.10 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 0.9.14 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 0.9.9 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1838-1 pulseaudio DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE-2009-1894 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:152 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Ubuntu update for pulseaudio - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
cr0 blog: Old school local root vulnerability in pulseaudio (CVE-2009-1894) MISC blog.cr0.org
Debian update for pulseaudio - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
510071 – (CVE-2009-1894) CVE-2009-1894 pulseaudio: privilege escalation flaw via pulseaudio re-exec CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Patch
admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 CONFIRM admin.fedoraproject.org
PulseAudio setuid Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch
USN-804-1: PulseAudio vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerability - Security advisories - Akita Software Security MISC www.akitasecurity.nl
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:171 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Research. MISC taviso.decsystem.org
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Gentoo update for pulseaudio - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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