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CVE-2009-1894

Publication date 17 July 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

High

Why this priority?

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

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-804-1
    • PulseAudio vulnerability
    • 16 July 2009

Other references