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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-2686: asterisk (1) Buffer Overflow and

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-2686: asterisk (1) Buffer Overflow and

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/01/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

main/http.c in the HTTP server in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.20.2, 10.x before 10.12.2, and 11.x before 11.2.2; Certified Asterisk 1.8.15 before 1.8.15-cert2; and Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x-digiumphones before 10.12.2-digiumphones does not properly restrict Content-Length values, which allows remote attackers to conduct stack-consumption attacks and cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted HTTP POST request. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-5976.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-asterisk

References

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