CVE-2014-3970: Pulseaudio

Low severity, CVSS 2.9. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Pulseaudio Pulseaudio: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.99.1 only; version 1.99.2 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; …

Published 2014-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.