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.

🔗 References (32)

• secalert@redhathttp://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/35868
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/35886
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/35896
• secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
• secalert@redhathttp://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
• secalert@redhathttp://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
• secalert@redhathttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
• secalert@redhathttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
• secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
• secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
• secalert@redhathttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
• secalert@redhathttps://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071