CVE-2016-9937

HIGH

Asterisk 13.12.x-13.13.x < 13.13.1 and 14.x < 14.2.1 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Opus SDP Parameter Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13.12.x and 13.13.x before 13.13.1 and 14.x before 14.2.1. If an SDP offer or answer is received with the Opus codec and with the format parameters separated using a space the code responsible for parsing will recursively call itself until it crashes. This occurs as the code does not properly handle spaces separating the parameters. This does NOT require the endpoint to have Opus configured in Asterisk. This also does not require the endpoint to be authenticated. If guest is enabled for chan_sip or anonymous in chan_pjsip an SDP offer or answer is still processed and the crash occurs.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94792
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-008-14.diff
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-26579
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-008.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-008-13.diff
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037407

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0261
EPSS Percentile 83.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (9)
digium/asterisk 13.12
digium/asterisk 13.13
digium/asterisk 14.0
digium/asterisk 14.1
digium/asterisk 14.01
digium/asterisk 14.1.1
digium/asterisk 14.1.2
digium/asterisk 14.02
digium/asterisk 14.2
Published Dec 12, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026