Upstream information

CVE-2009-1894 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 521474 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 pulseaudio Analysis
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 pulseaudio Analysis
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP1 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP1 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP2 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP3 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 pulseaudio Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 pulseaudio Analysis


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CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:39:33 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Sep 18 20:30:26 2026