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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…
High7.2EPSS 0.74%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.74% · top 45% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (16)
- 35868 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:171 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- pulseaudio-suid-privilege-escalation(51804) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:152 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 35886 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35721 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20090717 PulseAudio local race condition privilege escalation vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1838 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 35896 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-200907-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- USN-804-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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