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CVE-2014-3970

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3970 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in PulseAudio 5.0 and earlier, specifically within the module-rtp-recv module. A remote attacker can trigger an assertion failure and abort by sending an empty UDP packet to the affected system. With a CVSS score of 2.9, this vulnerability has a low severity, requiring adjacent network access and medium attack complexity to achieve partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.99.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:1.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.99.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:1.99.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.9LOW

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
5.5
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 122 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: pulseaudio
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: pulseaudio

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3970Low

pulseaudio: denial of service in module-rtp-recv

May 31, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0440.html
lists.freedesktop.org / archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-May/020740.html
Exploit
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q2/429
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q2/437
secunia.com / advisories/60624
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/67814