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CVE-2009-1894

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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.

References

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-1889

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721

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

Published: 2009-07-17

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00736

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