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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.141685
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Asterisk DoS Vulnerability (AST-2018-010)
Summary:Asterisk is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Asterisk is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Buffer overflow in DNS SRV and NAPTR lookups in Digium Asterisk
allows remote attackers to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted DNS SRV or NAPTR response, because
a buffer size is supposed to match an expanded length but actually matches a compressed length.

Affected Software/OS:
Asterisk Open Source 15.x and 16.x.

Solution:
Update to version 15.6.2, 16.0.1 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-19278
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-010.html
https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28127
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