CVE-2017-16671

high
Published 2017-11-09 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
8.8

Description

A Buffer Overflow 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. No size checking is done when setting the user field for Party B on a CDR. Thus, it is possible for someone to use an arbitrarily large string and write past the end of the user field storage buffer. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2017-7617, which was only about the Party A buffer.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27337

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-010.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16671

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbullseyefixed1:13.18.1~dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:13.18.1~dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
digiumasterisk{"startIncluding":"13.0.0","endExcluding":"13.18.1"}13.18.1
digiumcertified_asterisk13.13.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.