DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16672

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16672

    Published: 9 Nov 2017Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-16672

    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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16672

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: asterisk

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/asterisk?arch=source&distro=forky

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:13.18.1~dfsg-1

    Affected versions

    0.1.11-3
    0.1.11-3woody1

    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