CVE-2009-1894 (GCVE-0-2009-1894)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-07-17 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:27
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudi… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/35896 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html x_refsource_MISC
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2009-07-16 00:00
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