Bug 2539358 - CVE-2026-77396 asterisk: PJSIP: Memory corruption via crafted AVI file [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-77396 asterisk: PJSIP: Memory corruption via crafted AVI file [fedor...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: asterisk
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Peter Lemenkov
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["66e207a9-3b2d-44d7-9e41-8...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-77396
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Reported: 2026-09-23 11:36 UTC by Vladimir Vasilev
Modified: 2026-09-23 14:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-09-23 14:19:55 UTC
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-23 11:36:08 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in C. In 2.17 and earlier, the PJSIP AVI parser in pjmedia/src/pjmedia/avi_player.c uses an input-file video chunk length as the number of bytes copied into a frame buffer whose capacity is derived from the declared media dimensions. A crafted AVI file can therefore cause an attacker-controlled out-of-bounds write past the heap allocation when an application plays the file or pulls its frames. The existing size assertion does not protect production release builds, where assertions are disabled. Typical local playback can crash the process, while applications that accept untrusted AVI sources expose a stronger memory-corruption condition. No fixed version is available as of this review.

Comment 1 Peter Lemenkov 2026-09-23 14:19:55 UTC
Asterisk is not affected by this flaw.

The vulnerability is in pjmedia's AVI player (pjmedia/src/pjmedia/avi_player.c). Asterisk bundles pjproject for PJSIP and uses pjmedia only for SDP negotiation (pjmedia_sdp_neg); it never links or invokes the AVI player, and no code path in Asterisk feeds an AVI file to pjmedia. A crafted AVI therefore cannot reach the vulnerable parser through Asterisk in any supported configuration.

This holds for every shipped branch — Rawhide/F45 (23.5.0) and EPEL 8/9 + F44 (18.x) alike; none use pjmedia's AVI player.


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