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FreeBSD: VID-356B02E9-1954-11E7-9608-001999F8D30B: asterisk -- Buffer overflow in CDR's set user

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FreeBSD: VID-356B02E9-1954-11E7-9608-001999F8D30B: asterisk -- Buffer overflow in CDR's set user

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/04/2017
Modified
09/19/2017

Description

The Asterisk project reports:

No size checking is done when setting the user field

on a CDR. Thus, it is possible for someone to use an

arbitrarily large string and write past the end of the

user field storage buffer. This allows the possibility

of remote code injection.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-asterisk13

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