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CVE-2009-1299

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-03-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The pa_make_secure_dir function in core-util.c in PulseAudio 0.9.10 and 0.9.19 allows local users to change the ownership and permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.esd-##### temporary file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu's pulseaudio: 0.9.10, 0.9.19

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573615
• http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git%3Ba=patch%3Bh=d3efa43d85ac132c6a5a416a2b6f2115f5d577ee
• http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2017
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:124
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1570
• https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/509008
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573615
• http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git%3Ba=patch%3Bh=d3efa43d85ac132c6a5a416a2b6f2115f5d577ee
• http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2017
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:124
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1570
• https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/509008

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