CVE-2009-1894

N/A Unknown
Published: July 17, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/35868
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/35886
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/35896
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Exploit Patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
Source: secalert@redhat.com
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
Source: secalert@redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Exploit Patch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/35868
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/35886
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/35896
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Patch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

32 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.1%
28th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

Affected Vendors

pulseaudio

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