CVE - CVE-2009-1894

CVE-ID
CVE-2009-1894	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
MISC:20090717 PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerability URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded MISC:35721 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721 MISC:35868 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/35868 MISC:35886 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/35886 MISC:35896 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/35896 MISC:DSA-1838 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838 MISC:GLSA-200907-13 URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml MISC:MDVSA-2009:152 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:MDVSA-2009:171 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:USN-804-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1 MISC:http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html URL:http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html MISC:http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html URL:http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html MISC:http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602 URL:http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602 MISC:https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 URL:https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 MISC:pulseaudio-suid-privilege-escalation(51804) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20090602	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20090602)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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