Race Condition Affecting pulseaudio package, versions <0.9.15-4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PULSEAUDIO-406427
  • published17 Jul 2009
  • disclosed17 Jul 2009

Introduced: 17 Jul 2009

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 pulseaudio to version 0.9.15-4.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pulseaudio package and not the pulseaudio package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Scores

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