VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-16672

CVSS score5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability4.68%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-11-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13 before 13.18.1, 14 before 14.7.1, and 15 before 15.1.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert7. A memory leak occurs when an Asterisk pjsip session object is created and that call gets rejected before the session itself is fully established. When this happens the session object never gets destroyed. Eventually Asterisk can run out of memory and crash.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

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