Vulnerability CVE-2017-9358
Published: 2017-06-02

Description:
A memory exhaustion vulnerability exists in Asterisk Open Source 13.x before 13.15.1 and 14.x before 14.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert4, which can be triggered by sending specially crafted SCCP packets causing an infinite loop and leading to memory exhaustion (by message logging in that loop).

Type:

CWE-835

 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Asterisk -> Open source 
Asterisk -> Certified asterisk 

 References:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2017-004.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98573
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038531
https://bugs.debian.org/863906
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