Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting asterisk package, versions <14.7.5-r0
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE36-ASTERISK-467652
- published22 Sept 2019
- disclosed22 Sept 2019
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 22 Sep 2019
CVE-2017-16672 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.6 asterisk to version 14.7.5-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream asterisk package and not the asterisk package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.6 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.