UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2316

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2316

    Published: 22 Feb 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-2316

    Summary:

    Details: chan_sip in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x, 11.x before 11.21.1, 12.x, and 13.x before 13.7.1 and Certified Asterisk 1.8.28, 11.6 before 11.6-cert12, and 13.1 before 13.1-cert3, when the timert1 sip.conf configuration is set to a value greater than 1245, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via vectors related to large retransmit timeout values.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2316, http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-002.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2316

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: asterisk

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/asterisk@1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu3
    1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4
    1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1
    1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1

    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