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title: "CVE-2009-1894\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2009-1894

Publication date 17 July 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**High**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

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.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| pulseaudio | 9.04 jaunty | Fixed 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2 |
| 8.10 intrepid | Fixed 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.4 |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Fixed 0.9.10-1ubuntu1.1 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release |

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## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1894)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1894)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2009-1894)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1894)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-804-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-804-1)
+ PulseAudio vulnerability
+ 16 July 2009

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1894>