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CVE-2022-23608: Use after free in PJSIP
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2022-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-416
Description
PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in C language implementing standard based protocols such as SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE. In versions up to and including 2.11.1 when in a dialog set (or forking) scenario, a hash key shared by multiple UAC dialogs can potentially be prematurely freed when one of the dialogs is destroyed . The issue may cause a dialog set to be registered in the hash table multiple times (with different hash keys) leading to undefined behavior such as dialog list collision which eventually leading to endless loop. A patch is available in commit db3235953baa56d2fb0e276ca510fefca751643f which will be included in the next release. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Affected products
- asterisk Certified Asterisk: before 16.8.0; 16.8.0-cert1, 16.8.0-cert10, 16.8.0-cert11, 16.8.0-cert12, 16.8.0-cert2, 16.8.0-cert3 (+6) — fixed in 16.8.0
- Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
- asterisk: from 16.0.0 before 16.24.1; from 18.0.0 before 18.10.1; from 19.0.0 before 19.2.1 — fixed in 16.24.1, 18.10.1, 19.2.1
- teluu pjsip: through 2.11.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: asterisk Certified Asterisk 16.8.0; asterisk 16.24.1, 18.10.1, 19.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166226/Asterisk-Project-Security-Advisory-AST-2022-005.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Mar/1
- https://github.com/pjsip/pjproject/commit/db3235953baa56d2fb0e276ca510fefca751643f
- https://github.com/pjsip/pjproject/security/advisories/GHSA-ffff-m5fm-qm62
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00035.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00040.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00021.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00038.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-37
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5285
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166226/Asterisk-Project-Security-Advisory-AST-2022-005.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Mar/1
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