CVE-2009-1894
N/A
Published: July 17, 2009 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:08 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPulseaudio
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (16)
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362
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