CVE-2017-16671Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Asterisk

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.6%
top 12.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 9
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13 before 13.18.1, 14 before 14.7.1, and 15 before 15.1.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert7. No size checking is done when setting the user field for Party B on a CDR. Thus, it is possible for someone to use an arbitrarily large string and write past the end of the user field storage buffer. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2017-7617, which was only about the Party A buffer.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

NVDdigium/asterisk13.0.013.18.1+2
debiandebian/asterisk< asterisk 1:13.18.1~dfsg-1 (bullseye)
Debiandigium/asterisk< 1:13.18.1~dfsg-1
Ubuntudigium/asterisk< 1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6vm7-9fw2-vx89: A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13 before 132022-05-14
OSV
asterisk vulnerabilities2021-03-15
OSV
CVE-2017-16671: A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13 before 132017-11-09

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Asterisk vulnerabilities2021-03-15
Debian
CVE-2017-16671: asterisk - A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13 before 13.18.1...2017

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-16671 CVE-2017-16672 asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities2017-11-09
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-16671 CVE-2017-16672 asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities [fedora-all]2017-11-09
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-16671 CVE-2017-16672 asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities [epel-6]2017-11-09
CVE-2017-16671 — Digium Asterisk vulnerability | cvebase