Race Condition Affecting pulseaudio/pulseaudio package, versions [0.9.9,0.9.14]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.74% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PULSEAUDIOPULSEAUDIO-2379536
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • 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/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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