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CVE-2018-25028 — libpulse-binding

HIGH

CVE-2018-25028 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Use After Free vulnerability in libpulse-binding. A fix is available for libpulse-binding — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Use after free in libpulse-binding

Also known asCVE-2018-25027GHSA-ghpq-vjxw-ch5wGHSA-hxjf-h2mh-r6hjGHSA-jqpv-jm4m-86j9RUSTSEC-2018-0021
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 11, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.1%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs64th percentile — riskier than 64% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.53%1.06%1.59%0.5%1.1%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2018-25028 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 385,386 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🦀libpulse-binding

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects crates.io packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

Overview

Version 1.2.1 of the libpulse-binding Rust crate, released on the 15th of June 2018, fixed a pair of use-after-free issues with the objects returned by the get_format_info and get_context methods of Stream objects. These objects were mistakenly being constructed without setting an important flag to prevent destruction of the underlying C objects they reference upon their own destruction.

This advisory is being written retrospectively, having previously only been noted in the changelog. No CVE assignment was sought.

Patches

Users are required to update to version 1.2.1 or newer.

Versions older than 1.2.1 have been yanked from crates.io. This was believed to have already been done at the time of the 1.2.1 release, but upon double checking now they were found to still be available, so has been done now (22nd October 2020).

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🦀crates.iolibpulse-bindingall versions1.2.1cargo update -p libpulse-binding --precise 1.2.1

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
libpulse-bindinglibpulse-binding_project
< 1.2.1
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for libpulse-binding, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update libpulse-binding to 1.2.1 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2018-25028 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.

Frequently Asked Questions

### Overview Version 1.2.1 of the `libpulse-binding` Rust crate, released on the 15th of June 2018, fixed a pair of use-after-free issues with the objects returned by the `get_format_info` and `get_context` methods of `Stream` objects. These objects were mistakenly being constructed without setting an important flag to prevent destruction of the underlying C objects they reference upon their own destruction. This advisory is being written retrospectively, having previously only been noted in the changelog. No CVE assignment was sought. ### Patches Users are required to update to version 1.
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CVE-2018-25028: libpulse-binding — Fixed in 1.2.1