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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35868 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:171 ↗
- http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51804 ↗
- http://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090602 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:152 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35886 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510071 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded ↗
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1838 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35896 ↗
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-804-1 ↗