CVE-2017-16672

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16672
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16672.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16672
Related
Published
2017-11-09T00:29:00Z
Modified
2025-04-20T01:37:25Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / asterisk

Package

Name
asterisk
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/asterisk?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:13.18.1~dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/asterisk/asterisk

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk
Events