CVE-2014-3970 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3970?

CVE-2014-3970 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 11 Jun 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3970?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Pulseaudio Pulseaudio.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3970?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3970 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3970 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2007-1804 Denial of service in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1894 Race condition in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2008-0008 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2009-1299 Path traversal in n/a Medium 6.9
• CVE-2024-11586 Denial of service in Ubuntu's pulseaudio Medium 4.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3970, GHSA-98qp-j4c5-f834, MGASA-2014-0440, openSUSE-SU-2024:10241-1.