CVE-2016-9937Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Asterisk

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 12
Latest updateMay 17

Description

An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13.12.x and 13.13.x before 13.13.1 and 14.x before 14.2.1. If an SDP offer or answer is received with the Opus codec and with the format parameters separated using a space the code responsible for parsing will recursively call itself until it crashes. This occurs as the code does not properly handle spaces separating the parameters. This does NOT require the endpoint to have Opus configured in Asterisk. This also does not require the endpoint to be

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDdigium/asterisk9 versions+8

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-6qm8-8j44-j9h2: An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 132022-05-17

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2016-9937: asterisk - An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13.12.x and 13.13.x before 13.13...2016

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9937 asterisk: Crash on SDP offer or answer from endpoint using Opus2016-12-12