Kamailio
CVE-2018-8828
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Off-by-one prevention
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| Impact | CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the critical-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Kamailio before 4.4.7, 5.0.x before 5.0.6, and 5.1.x before 5.1.2. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.
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A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-193. A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Kamailio before 4.4.7, 5.0.x before 5.0.6, and 5.1.x before 5.1.2. A specially crafted REGISTER message with a malformed branch or From tag triggers an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in the tmx_check_pretran function in modules/tmx/tmx_pretran.c. Affected products include: Kamailio, Debian Debian Linux. Version information: before 4.4.7.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Kamailio before 4.4.7, 5.0.x before 5.0.6, and 5.1.x before 5.1.2. A specially crafted REGISTER message with a malformed branch or From tag triggers an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in the tmx_check_pretran function in modules/tmx/tmx_pretran.c.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in the encode_msg function in encode_msg.c in the SEAS module in Kamailio (formerly OpenSER a
In Kamailio before 5.0.7 and 5.1.x before 5.1.4, a crafted SIP message with an invalid Via header causes a segmentation
In Kamailio before 5.0.7 and 5.1.x before 5.1.4, a crafted SIP message with a double "To" header and an empty "To" tag c
Insecure Temporary file vulnerability in /tmp/kamailio_fifo in kamailio 4.0.1. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this
Heap-based buffer overflow in Kamailio's CDP (C Diameter Peer) module allows a remote party that can deliver a malformed
Kamailio before 5.4.0, as used in Sip Express Router (SER) in Sippy Softswitch 4.5 through 5.2 and other products, allow
The kamcmd administrative utility and default configuration in kamailio before 4.3.0 use /tmp/kamailio_ctl. Rated high s
The kamailio build in kamailio before 4.2.0-2 process allows local users to gain privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 7
Denial of service in Kamailio v6.1.1 and earlier allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the SIP proxy by sen
Out-of-bounds memory access in Kamailio SIP server versions before 5.8.8, 6.0.6, and 6.1.1 enables unauthenticated remot
A heap/stack-adjacent buffer overflow in Kamailio's optional sipt module lets remote, unauthenticated attackers crash th
Out-of-bounds read in Kamailio's IMS AVP handler exposes telecom infrastructure to remote memory disclosure and potentia
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