Resource Exhaustion Affecting asterisk package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
52.45% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-ASTERISK-453107
  • published24 Sept 2018
  • disclosed24 Sept 2018

Introduced: 24 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17281  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:18.04 asterisk.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream asterisk package and not the asterisk package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk through 13.23.0, 14.7.x through 14.7.7, and 15.x through 15.6.0 and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-cert2. It allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a websocket.