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Medium USN-4519-1 1 CVE

pulseaudio vulnerability

Published Sep 17, 2020 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Ratchanan Srirattanamet discovered that an Ubuntu-specific patch caused
PulseAudio to incorrectly handle memory under certain error conditions in the
Bluez 5 module. An attacker could use this issue to cause PulseAudio to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-15710)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.14

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2020-15710

    Potential double-free in pulseaudio

    Potential double free in Bluez 5 module of PulseAudio could allow a local attacker to leak memory or crash the program. The modargs variable may be freed twice in the fail condition in src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluez5-device.c and src/modules/bluetooth/mod…

    Canonical PulseAudio pulseaudio Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15710