CVE-2009-1894
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 17, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 2, 2009
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 35868third-party-advisory
- MDVSA-2009:171vendor-advisory
- http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
- pulseaudio-suid-privilege-escalation(51804)vdb-entry
- http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
- MDVSA-2009:152vendor-advisory
- 35886third-party-advisory
- 35721vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
- 20090717 PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerabilitymailing-list
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
- DSA-1838vendor-advisory
- 35896third-party-advisory
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
- GLSA-200907-13vendor-advisory
- USN-804-1vendor-advisory
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