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CVE-2020-15710: canonical pulseaudio Double Free

CVSS: 6.1v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2020-15710USN-4519-1
Published 19-11-2020Last modified 17-09-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-15710 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) Double Free vulnerability in canonical pulseaudio. EPSS estimates a 0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
24/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.1/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.30%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 19-11-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.30%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

21%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.30% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.30%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Canonical1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • pulseaudio< 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.14

2 vendors · 2 products

References

5 links