CVE-2007-1804

Summary

CVECVE-2007-1804
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-04-02 23:19:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-29 01:31:00 UTC
DescriptionPulseAudio 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via (1) a PA_PSTREAM_DESCRIPTOR_LENGTH value of FRAME_SIZE_MAX_ALLOW sent on TCP port 9875, which triggers a p->export assertion failure in do_read; (2) a PA_PSTREAM_DESCRIPTOR_LENGTH value of 0 sent on TCP port 9875, which triggers a length assertion failure in pa_memblock_new; or (3) an empty packet on UDP port 9875, which triggers a t assertion failure in pa_sdp_parse; and allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted packet on TCP port 9875 that (4) triggers a maxlength assertion failure in pa_memblockq_new, (5) triggers a size assertion failure in pa_xmalloc, or (6) plays a certain sound file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 0.9.5 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 0.9.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:065 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
USN-465-1: PulseAudio vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Luigi Auriemma MISC aluigi.org
PulseAudio Assert() Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Ubuntu update for pulseaudio - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
aluigi.altervista.org/adv/pulsex-adv.txt MISC aluigi.altervista.org Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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