CVE-2020-15710

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2020-15710 · Published 19/11/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-15710 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting pulseaudio (pulseaudio project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.30%, higher than 22.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pulseaudio pulseaudio_project	`= 1:8.0-0ubuntu1= 1:8.0-0ubuntu2= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.1= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.12= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.2= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.4= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.5= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.6= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.8= 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.9= 1:8.0-0ubuntu4`	No fix yet

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.

References

launchpad.net/bugs/1884738 · Issue Tracking
ubuntu.com/USN-4519-1 · Third Party Advisory

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