CVE-2009-1894

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2009-1894
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2009-07-17T16:30:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T01:17:31
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-362 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/362.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 Exploit Patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721 Exploit Patch
http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35868
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
http://secunia.com/advisories/35886
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
http://secunia.com/advisories/35896
http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1894
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1894
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:32:43 Added to TrackCVE
2023-02-02 19:02:29 2023-02-02T17:16:29 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 19:02:30 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. CVE-2009-1894 pulseaudio: privilege escalation flaw via pulseaudio re-exec Description updated
2023-02-13 03:03:08 2023-02-13T01:17:31 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 03:03:09 CVE-2009-1894 pulseaudio: privilege escalation flaw via pulseaudio re-exec 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. Description updated