Bug#869404: resiprocate: CVE-2017-11521: Adding too many media connections may lead to memory exhaustion

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: resiprocate
Version: 1:1.9.7-5
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream security
Forwarded: https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/pull/88

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for resiprocate.

CVE-2017-11521[0]:
| The SdpContents::Session::Medium::parse function in
| resip/stack/SdpContents.cxx in reSIProcate 1.10.2 allows remote
| attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by
| triggering many media connections.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11521
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11521
[1] https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/pull/88

Regards,
Salvatore