CVE-2009-1894

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.2
Exploit probability—
ProductPulseaudio
PublishedJul 17, 2009
First seenJul 17, 2009

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
pulseaudio pulseaudio0.9.9, 0.9.10, 0.9.14—

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