| Name | CVE-2009-1894 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1838-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 537351 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| pulseaudio (PTS) | bullseye | 14.2-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 16.1+dfsg1-2 | fixed | |
| trixie | 17.0+dfsg1-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 17.0+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pulseaudio | source | etch | (not affected) | |||
| pulseaudio | source | lenny | 0.9.10-3+lenny1 | DSA-1838-1 | ||
| pulseaudio | source | (unstable) | 0.9.15-4.1 | high | 537351 |
[etch] - pulseaudio <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)