Race Condition Affecting pulseaudio package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-PULSEAUDIO-10078221
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed17 Jul 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jul 2009

CVE-2009-1894  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pulseaudio.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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