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CVE-2009-1894

Published: 17 July 2009

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.

Priority

High

Status

Package Release Status
pulseaudio
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needed

dapper Does not exist

hardy
Released (0.9.10-1ubuntu1.1)
intrepid
Released (0.9.10-2ubuntu9.4)
jaunty
Released (1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2)