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FreeBSD: VID-E91CF90C-D6DD-11E7-9D10-001999F8D30B: asterisk -- DOS Vulnerability in Asterisk chan_skinny

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/30/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/02/2017
Modified
12/02/2017

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(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-asterisk13

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