CVE-2014-3970

Summary

CVECVE-2014-3970
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-06-11 14:55:00 UTC
Updated2017-01-07 03:00:00 UTC
DescriptionThe pa_rtp_recv function in modules/rtp/rtp.c in the module-rtp-recv module in PulseAudio 5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and abort) via an empty UDP packet.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 1.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 1.1 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 1.99.1 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 1.99.2 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 2.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 2.1 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 3.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 4.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 5.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 1.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 1.1 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 1.99.1 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 1.99.2 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 2.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 2.1 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 3.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 4.0 All All All
Application Pulseaudio Pulseaudio 5.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:134 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
PulseAudio 'pa_rtp_recv()' Function Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
oss-sec: CVE request: PulseAudio crash due to empty UDP packet MLIST seclists.org
[pulseaudio-discuss] Remotely triggerable crash in module-rtp-recv MLIST lists.freedesktop.org Exploit
Security Advisory SA60624 - SUSE update for pulseaudio - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
oss-sec: Re: CVE request: PulseAudio crash due to empty UDP packet MLIST seclists.org
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0440 - Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability CONFIRM advisories.mageia.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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