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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - pulseaudio: denial of service in module-rtp-recv (CVE-2014-3970)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - pulseaudio: denial of service in module-rtp-recv (CVE-2014-3970)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability :

PulseAudio versions shipped in mbs2 were vulnerable to a remote RTP attack which could crash the PulseAudio server simply by sending an empty UDP packet.

Additionally, the version of PulseAudio shipped in mbs2 was a pre-release version of PulseAudio v5 and has been updated to the official final version.

The following security issue is fixed in this update :

  - Fixed a remote denial of service attack in     module-rtp-recv. (CVE-2014-3970)

&#9;This update fixes the following security issue: &#9;(bnc#881524) CVE-2014-3970 - Denial of service in module-rtp-recv

Rebase current post-4.0 snapshot to 5.0 release, see also:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5.0/

This update restores compatibility with pulseaudio upstream ABI, and includes rebuilds of affected fedora packages.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198684	RHEL 7 : pulseaudio (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198671	RHEL 6 : pulseaudio (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
82387	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pulseaudio (MDVSA-2015:134)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	low
77179	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : pulseaudio (SAT Patch Number 9568)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
76960	openSUSE Security Update : pulseaudio (openSUSE-2014-477)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
76845	Fedora 20 : qt-mobility-1.2.2-0.16.20140317git169da60c.fc20 / audacious-plugins-3.4.3-2.fc20 / etc (2014-8183)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

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