CVE-2018-19278
Buffer overflow in DNS SRV and NAPTR lookups in Digium Asterisk 15.x before 15.6.2 and 16.x before 16.0.1 allows remote attackers to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted DNS SRV or NAPTR response, because a buffer size is supposed to match an expanded…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.58%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Buffer overflow in DNS SRV and NAPTR lookups in Digium Asterisk 15.x before 15.6.2 and 16.x before 16.0.1 allows remote attackers to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted DNS SRV or NAPTR response, because a buffer size is supposed to match an expanded length but actually matches a compressed length.
- 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
- 3.58% probability · 89th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- digium/asterisk
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-010.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28127Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-010.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28127Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.