High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 2, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-17090
CVE-2017-17090
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.
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Affected products
16cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 11 more
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=13.13
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1_rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1_rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1_rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert6:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert7:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: <=13.13-cert7
- Range: <=13.18.2, <=14.7.2, <=15.1.2
Patches
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References
7- downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-013.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/102023nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27452nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039948nvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00028.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4076nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43992/nvd
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