Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Nov 9, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-16672
CVE-2017-16672
Description
An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13 before 13.18.1, 14 before 14.7.1, and 15 before 15.1.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert7. A memory leak occurs when an Asterisk pjsip session object is created and that call gets rejected before the session itself is fully established. When this happens the session object never gets destroyed. Eventually Asterisk can run out of memory and crash.
Affected products
12cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 10 more
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert1_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert1_rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert1_rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert1_rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert6:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
5- downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-011.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/101765nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27345nvdVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-11nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4076nvd
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