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Ubuntu: USN-4519-1 (CVE-2020-15710): PulseAudio vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4519-1 (CVE-2020-15710): PulseAudio vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/17/2020
Created
09/22/2020
Added
09/18/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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/module-bluez5-device.c. Fixed in 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.14.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpulse-mainloop-glib0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpulse0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-pulseaudio
  • ubuntu-upgrade-pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
  • ubuntu-upgrade-pulseaudio-utils

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