CVE-2017-17090
HIGHEPSS 100th pctlDescription
An issue was discovered in chan_skinny.c in Asterisk Open Source 13.18.2 and older, 14.7.2 and older, and 15.1.2 and older, and Certified Asterisk 13.13-cert7 and older. If the chan_skinny (aka SCCP protocol) channel driver is flooded with certain requests, it can cause the asterisk process to use excessive amounts of virtual memory, eventually causing asterisk to stop processing requests of any kind.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-013.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102023
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039948
- https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27452
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00028.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4076
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43992/
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