Vulnerability in Pulseaudio

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 then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.007 (50.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Pulseaudio — versions 0.9.9, 0.9.10, 0.9.14
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References