CVE-2017-16671

Summary

CVECVE-2017-16671
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-11-09 00:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-11-25 11:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA Buffer Overflow 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. No size checking is done when setting the user field for Party B on a CDR. Thus, it is possible for someone to use an arbitrarily large string and write past the end of the user field storage buffer. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2017-7617, which was only about the Party A buffer.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Digium Asterisk All All All All
Application Digium Asterisk All All All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 All All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1_rc1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1_rc2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1_rc3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1_rc4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert5 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert6 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 All All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1_rc1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1_rc2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1_rc3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert1_rc4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert5 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13.0 cert6 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4076-1 asterisk DEBIAN www.debian.org
Multiple Asterisk Products CDR Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
AST-2017-010 CONFIRM downloads.digium.com Vendor Advisory
[ASTERISK-27337] chan_sip: Security vulnerability with client code header (revisited) - Digium/Asterisk JIRA CONFIRM issues.asterisk.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201811-11) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710292 Gentoo Linux Asterisk Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201811-11)
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