SB20171211308 - Denial of service in Digium Asterisk



SB20171211308 - Denial of service in Digium Asterisk

Published: December 13, 2017

Security Bulletin ID SB20171211308
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Low 100%
  • Low
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error when handling user-supplied input. A remote attacker can establish a call to the target system and send a specially crafted compound RTCP packet containing more than one report, trigger memory corruption and cause the application to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.