vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-e91cf90c-d6dd-11e7-9d10-001999f8d30b (CVE-2017-17090): asterisk -- DOS Vulnerability in Asterisk chan_skinny
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Dec 1, 2017 | Dec 14, 2017 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 1, 2017
Added
Dec 14, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
The Asterisk project reports: 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.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-asterisk13
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