CVE-2016-7551 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7551?

CVE-2016-7551 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 Apr 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

chain_sip in Asterisk Open Source 11.x before 11.23.1 and 13.x 13.11.1 and Certified Asterisk 11.6 before 11.6-cert15 and 13.8 before 13.8-cert3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (port exhaustion).

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7551?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Digium Asterisk, Digium Certified Asterisk.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7551?

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-2016-7551 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7551 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7551, GHSA-254r-9226-v29v, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7551.