Resource Management Errors Affecting asterisk package, versions [,1.4.40.1)[1.6.1.0,1.6.1.25)[1.6.2.0,1.6.2.17)[1.8.3.0,1.8.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
34.39% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ASTERISK-2371537
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Apr 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2011

CVE-2011-1507  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade asterisk to version 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.17, 1.8.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Asterisk Open Source 1.4.x before 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.x before 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.x before 1.6.2.17.3, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3.3 and Asterisk Business Edition C.x.x before C.3.6.4 do not restrict the number of unauthenticated sessions to certain interfaces, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion and disk space exhaustion) via a series of TCP connections.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1