DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1894

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1894

    Published: 17 Jul 2009Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2009-1894

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1894

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pulseaudio

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/pulseaudio?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.9.15-4.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High