CVE-2009-1894

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838

http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602

http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/35896

http://secunia.com/advisories/35886

http://secunia.com/advisories/35868

http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3