CVE-2009-1894
7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
6.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%
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 configurations
References
blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
secunia.com/advisories/35868
secunia.com/advisories/35886
secunia.com/advisories/35896
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
Related
7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
6.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%