CVE-2007-1804

high

Description

PulseAudio 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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33315

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1214

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-465-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23240

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_13_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:065

http://secunia.com/advisories/25787

http://secunia.com/advisories/25431

http://aluigi.org/poc/pulsex.zip

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/pulsex-adv.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-04-02

Updated: 2017-07-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High