CVE-2009-1894

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

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2009-07-17 16:30

Updated : 2025-04-09 00:30


NVD link : CVE-2009-1894

Mitre link : CVE-2009-1894

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2009-1894


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Products Affected

pulseaudio

  • pulseaudio
CWE
CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')