CVE-2009-1894
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.73% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 54.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-07-17 16:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 05:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-06-02
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3a2c2ac9c6b46e8c9c6d46519597f4fdcf484852551a71f9297c272eaad4d97f
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com35868http://secunia.com/advisories/35868
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:171http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
- blog.cr0.orghttp://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.compulseaudio-suid-privilege-escalation(51804)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
- www.akitasecurity.nlhttp://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:152http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
- secunia.com35886http://secunia.com/advisories/35886
- www.securityfocus.com35721http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
- www.securityfocus.com20090717 PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
- admin.fedoraproject.orghttps://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
- www.debian.orgDSA-1838http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
- secunia.com35896http://secunia.com/advisories/35896
- taviso.decsystem.orghttp://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200907-13http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-804-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- pulseaudio Fixed in 0.9.15-4.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- pulseaudio Fixed in 0.9.15-4.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- pulseaudio Fixed in 0.9.15-4.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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