CVE-2017-17090

HIGH

Asterisk Open Source <15.1.2 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in chan_skinny.c in Asterisk Open Source 13.18.2 and older, 14.7.2 and older, and 15.1.2 and older, and Certified Asterisk 13.13-cert7 and older. 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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Juan Sacco · pythondosmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43992

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (7)

[Vendor Advisory] http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-013.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102023

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039948

[Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27452

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00028.html

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43992/

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4076

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.8058

EPSS Percentile 99.1%

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-459

Status published

Products (3)

digium/asterisk < 13.8.2

digium/certified_asterisk 13.13 cert1 (11 CPE variants)

digium/certified_asterisk < 13.13

Published Dec 02, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026