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CVE-2009-1894 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html	CVE
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071	CVE	ExploitPatch
http://secunia.com/advisories/35868	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35886	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35896	CVE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml	CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804	CVE
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html	CVE
http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602	CVE
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721	CVE	ExploitPatch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1	CVE
http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html	[email protected]
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071	[email protected]	ExploitPatch
http://secunia.com/advisories/35868	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/35886	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/35896	[email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml	[email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804	[email protected]
http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html	[email protected]
http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602	[email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721	[email protected]	ExploitPatch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1	[email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-362	Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
pulseaudio pulseaudio	0.9.9 0.9.10 0.9.14
CPE 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:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

9 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 13, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 2, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 10, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 17, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 17, 2009	Initial Analysis	[email protected]