NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting asterisk package, versions [13.0.0,13.29.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
15.43% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ASTERISK-2371624
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18976  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade asterisk to version 13.29.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. An issue was discovered in res_pjsip_t38.c in Sangoma Asterisk through 13.x and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-x. If it receives a re-invite initiating T.38 faxing and has a port of 0 and no c line in the SDP, a NULL pointer dereference and crash will occur. This is different from CVE-2019-18940.

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