Input validation error in Asterisk Open Source - CVE-2019-15639

 

Input validation error in Asterisk Open Source - CVE-2019-15639

Published: September 10, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU20962
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15639
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the "main/translate.c". A remote attacker can send a specific RTP packet during a call and cause a crash in a specific scenario.


Affected software

Asterisk Open Source
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
asterisk (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2019-15639

Install updates from vendor's website.

Asterisk Open Source - addressed in versions 13.28.1, 16.5.1
asterisk (Alpine package) - update to 16.5.1-r0

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