CVE-2009-1894

EPSS 0.10%

pulseaudio - privilege escalation

Published: 7/17/2009Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-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 packages (2)

Debian/pulseaudiofrom 0, < 0.9.15-4.1
Debian/pulseaudiofrom 0, < 0.9.10-3+lenny1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1894