CVE-2017-9358

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

A memory exhaustion vulnerability exists in Asterisk Open Source 13.x before 13.15.1 and 14.x before 14.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert4, which can be triggered by sending specially crafted SCCP packets causing an infinite loop and leading to memory exhaustion (by message logging in that loop).

Affected products

asterisk Certified Asterisk: 13.13.0, 13.13.0-cert1, 13.13.0-cert1-rc1, 13.13.0-cert1-rc2, 13.13.0-cert1-rc3, 13.13.0-cert1-rc4 (+4)
asterisk: 13.0.0, 13.1.0, 13.1.0-rc1, 13.1.0-rc2, 13.2.0, 13.2.0-rc1 (+34)

References

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2017-004.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98573
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038531
https://bugs.debian.org/863906
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2017-004.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98573
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038531
https://bugs.debian.org/863906

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