Bug 1590211 (CVE-2018-12228) - CVE-2018-12228 asterisk: Infinite loop when reading iostreams
Summary: CVE-2018-12228 asterisk: Infinite loop when reading iostreams
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-12228
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1590212 1590213
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-06-12 08:34 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:08 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: asterisk 15.4.1
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Last Closed: 2018-06-12 08:36:29 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2018-06-12 08:34:24 UTC 
When connected to Asterisk via TCP/TLS if the client abruptly disconnects, or sends a specially crafted message then Asterisk gets caught in an infinite loop while trying to read the data stream. Thus rendering the system as unusable.

External References:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-007.html
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-06-12 08:35:03 UTC 
Created asterisk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1590212]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1590213]
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