CVE-2009-1894: Race Condition
First published: Tue Jul 07 2009(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Pulseaudio Pulseaudio | =0.9.10 | |
| Pulseaudio Pulseaudio | =0.9.9 | |
| Pulseaudio Pulseaudio | =0.9.14 |
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Reference Links
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
- http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35868
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35886
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35896
- http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
- http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=blob;f=src/daemon/main.c;h=b58bb379#l403
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=350952&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=350952&action=edit
- http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1894
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1894
- http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1553720
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=510071#c3
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.spec?r1=1.59&r2=1.60
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1894 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1894
- https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2009-1894.json
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- vendor/pulseaudio
- canonical/pulseaudio pulseaudio
- version/pulseaudio pulseaudio/0.9.10
- version/pulseaudio pulseaudio/0.9.9
- version/pulseaudio pulseaudio/0.9.14