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Use After Free

CVE-2022-42705

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

A use-after-free in res_pjsip_pubsub.c in Sangoma Asterisk 16.28, 18.14, 19.6, and certified/18.9-cert2 may allow a remote authenticated attacker to crash Asterisk (denial of service) by performing activity on a subscription via a reliable transport at the same time that Asterisk is also performing activity on that subscription.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published