CVE-2017-16672

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    CVE-2017-16672

    Published: 9 Nov 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13 before 13.18.1, 14 before 14.7.1, and 15 before 15.1.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert7. A memory leak occurs when an Asterisk pjsip session object is created and that call gets rejected before the session itself is fully established. When this happens the session object never gets destroyed. Eventually Asterisk can run out of memory and crash.

    References: http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-011.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101765, https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27345, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-11, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4076

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 85335355efb2d7914a1fe20ed31afcef15fd210c
    Fixed -b7607c41e4825490ffea9d09c0b3b8f9d65f87c0

    Affected versions

    13.13.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High