VDB
CVE-2009-1894
CVE-2009-1894
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.199999809265137 HIGH
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.
EPSS 0.74% · 53.6th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 2.0
7.199999809265137
EPSS Score
0.74%
53.6th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| pulseaudio | pulseaudio | 0.9.9, 0.9.10, 0.9.14 |
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
Timeline
- Jul 17, 2009 CVE Published
- Jul 20, 2009 PoC Published
- Oct 19, 2010 PoC Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 30, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 22, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 16, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 31, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 23, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 3, 2023 EPSS Score
- Feb 13, 2023 EPSS Score
- Feb 15, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- 35868 third-party-advisory
- http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html url
- pulseaudio-suid-privilege-escalation(51804) vdb
- http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602 url
- MDVSA-2009:152 vendor-advisory
- 35721 vdb
- MDVSA-2009:171 vendor-advisory
- 35886 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 url
- 20090717 PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerability mailing-list
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 url
- DSA-1838 vendor-advisory
- 35896 third-party-advisory
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html url
- GLSA-200907-13 vendor-advisory
- USN-804-1 vendor-advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1894 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1894 url