CVE-2017-7853: gnu osip

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-7853 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in gnu osip. EPSS estimates a 2.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 13-04-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In libosip2 in GNU oSIP 4.1.0 and 5.0.0, a malformed SIP message can lead to a heap buffer overflow in the msg_osip_body_parse() function defined in osipparser2/osip_message_parse.c, resulting in a remote DoS.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.