CVE-2013-5642
MEDIUMEPSS 95th pctlDescription
The SIP channel driver (channels/chan_sip.c) in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.23.1, 10.x before 10.12.3, and 11.x before 11.5.1; Certified Asterisk 1.8.15 before 1.8.15-cert3 and 11.2 before 11.2-cert2; and Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x-digiumphones before 10.12.3-digiumphones allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, segmentation fault, and daemon crash) via an invalid SDP that defines a media description before the connection description in a SIP request.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-08/0174.html
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2013-005.html
- http://osvdb.org/96690
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54534
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54617
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2749
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:223
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62022
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028957
- https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-22007
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