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.
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Advisories
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DSA-1838-1 | New pulseaudio packages fix privilege escalation |
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EUVD-2009-1889 | 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. |
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USN-804-1 | PulseAudio vulnerability |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.737Z
Reserved: 2009-06-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-1894

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-07-17T16:30:00.920
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2009-1894


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