UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17090

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17090

    Published: 2 Dec 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-17090

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in chan_skinny.c in Asterisk Open Source 13.18.2 and older, 14.7.2 and older, and 15.1.2 and older, and Certified Asterisk 13.13-cert7 and older. If the chan_skinny (aka SCCP protocol) channel driver is flooded with certain requests, it can cause the asterisk process to use excessive amounts of virtual memory, eventually causing asterisk to stop processing requests of any kind.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17090, http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-013.html, https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27452, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17090

    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
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