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asterisk -- Remote crash vulnerability DNS SRV and NAPTR lookups

Affected packages
asterisk15 < 15.6.1
asterisk16 < 16.0.1

Details

VuXML ID c6fb2734-e835-11e8-b14b-001999f8d30b
Discovery 2018-10-23
Entry 2018-11-14

The Asterisk project reports:

There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in dns_srv and dns_naptr functions of Asterisk that allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted DNS SRV or NAPTR response. The attackers request causes Asterisk to segfault and crash.

References

URL https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-010.html