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CVE-2017-17090

N/A

Published: December 2, 2017 at 12:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:10 AM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorAsteriskCertified Asterisk

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 82%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Asterisk · Digium

95%

v ≤ 13.8.2v ≤ 14.7.2v ≤ 15.1.2

Certified Asterisk · Digium

95%

v ≤ 13.1313.13 cert1 13.13 cert1_rc1 13.13 cert1_rc2 13.13 cert1_rc3 13.13 cert1_rc4 13.13 cert2 13.13 cert3 13.13 cert4 13.13 cert5 13.13 cert6 13.13 cert7

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (7)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-013.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102023

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039948

x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27452

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00028.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

Source: [email protected]

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4076

Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Source: [email protected]

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

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-459

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