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CVE-2009-1894
Published: Jul 17, 2009
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
35868
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
MDVSA-2009:171
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
pulseaudio-suid-privilege-escalation(51804)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
x_refsource_MISC
MDVSA-2009:152
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
35886
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
35721
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
x_refsource_CONFIRM
20090717 PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerability
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
x_refsource_CONFIRM
DSA-1838
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
35896
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
x_refsource_MISC
GLSA-200907-13
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
USN-804-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
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