CVE-2009-1894 - pulseaudio: privilege escalation flaw via pulseaudio re-exec

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HIGH

pulseaudio: privilege escalation flaw via pulseaudio re-exec

Published Jul 17, 2009

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.74%

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-271

CWE-362

Race Condition

References (19)

http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/35868
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35886
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35896
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploitPatch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1894
Vendor Advisory
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatchIssue Tracking
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1894
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1894

Link	Providers	Tags
http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html		x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/35868		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35886		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35896		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploitPatch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1894		Vendor Advisory
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071		x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatchIssue Tracking
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1894
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1894