CVE-2007-3764 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash Asterisk PBX via crafted Skinny protocol packets causing memory corruption, requiring immediate software upgrades.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2007-3764?

CVE-2007-3764 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Jul 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Skinny channel driver (chan_skinny) in Asterisk before 1.2.22 and 1.4.x before 1.4.8, Business Edition before B.2.2.1, AsteriskNOW before beta7, Appliance Developer Kit before 0.5.0, and s800i before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain data length value in a crafted packet, which results in an "overly large memcpy."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3764?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Asterisk Asterisk, Asterisk Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit, Asterisk Asterisknow, Asterisk S800i Appliance.

How do I fix CVE-2007-3764?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-3764 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-3764 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-3764, GHSA-c8c6-m3x8-7cq5.

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