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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-17281: Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-17281: Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/24/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/26/2018
Modified
12/21/2018

Description

There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk through 13.23.0, 14.7.x through 14.7.7, and 15.x through 15.6.0 and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-cert2. It allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a websocket.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-asterisk

References

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