CVE-2016-2232

Description

Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x, 11.x before 11.21.1, 12.x, and 13.x before 13.7.1 and Certified Asterisk 1.8.28, 11.6 before 11.6-cert12, and 13.1 before 13.1-cert3 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and crash) via a zero length error correcting redundancy packet for a UDPTL FAX packet that is lost.

6.5

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 3.0 •

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 8.00% Top 10%

Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory asterisk.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-003.html	vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034931	vdb entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3700	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2016-2232?: CVE-2016-2232 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2016-2232?: To fix CVE-2016-2232, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2016-2232 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2016-2232 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~8% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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