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.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 54th percentile

Published

2009-07-17

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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

ExploitDB entries (2)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9208
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9207

Security advisories

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry