CVE-2017-9358
A memory exhaustion vulnerability exists in Asterisk Open Source 13.x before 13.15.1 and 14.x before 14.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert4, which can be triggered by sending specially crafted SCCP packets causing an infinite loop and…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.82%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A memory exhaustion vulnerability exists in Asterisk Open Source 13.x before 13.15.1 and 14.x before 14.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert4, which can be triggered by sending specially crafted SCCP packets causing an infinite loop and leading to memory exhaustion (by message logging in that loop).
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.82% probability · 86th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- Affected
- sangoma/asterisk · asterisk/certified asterisk
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2017-004.txtThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98573Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038531
- https://bugs.debian.org/863906Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2017-004.txtThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98573Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038531
- https://bugs.debian.org/863906Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.