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CVE-2009-1894
Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35868
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
- http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
- http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35886
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35896
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
0.9.9, 0.9.10, 0.9.14
Timeline
Official Publish:
July 17th, 2009
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.