CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.2. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2009-1894
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
0.74%
Original NVD 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.