Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 17, 2009· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2009-1894
CVE-2009-1894
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 products
3cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
16- www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721nvdExploitPatch
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitPatch
- blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/35868nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/35886nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/35896nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xmlnvd
- taviso.decsystem.org/research.htmlnvd
- www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.phpnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838nvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threadednvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1nvd
- admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804nvd
News mentions
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