Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting sipcrack package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2504-SIPCRACK-9832876
  • published26 Apr 2025
  • disclosed26 Jul 2017

Introduced: 26 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11655  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:25.04 sipcrack.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sipcrack package and not the sipcrack package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:25.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

A memory leak was found in the way SIPcrack 0.2 handled processing of SIP traffic, because a lines array was mismanaged. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash long-running sipdump network sniffing sessions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1