CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-17090

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

An issue was discovered in chan_skinny.c in Asterisk Open Source versions 13.18.2 and older, 14.7.2 and older, and 15.1.2 and older. Flooding the chan_skinny (SCCP protocol) channel driver with certain requests can cause the Asterisk process to use excessive amounts of virtual memory, eventually causing it to stop processing any requests.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience service interruptions in Asterisk, leading to loss of availability and disruptions in communication. Excessive memory usage may also impact other processes running on the server.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Asterisk to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability. Additionally, monitoring traffic to the Asterisk server for potential flooding attempts is advisable.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS