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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2023-22741 EUVD-2023-26859

heap-over-flow in stun_parse_attribute in sofia-sip

Published Jan 19, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Sofia-SIP is an open-source SIP User-Agent library, compliant with the IETF RFC3261 specification. In affected versions Sofia-SIP **lacks both message length and attributes length checks** when it handles STUN packets, leading to controllable heap-over-flow. For example, in stun_parse_attribute(), after we get the attribute's type and length value, the length will be used directly to copy from the heap, regardless of the message's left size. Since network users control the overflowed length, and the data is written to heap chunks later, attackers may achieve remote code execution by heap grooming or other exploitation methods. The bug was introduced 16 years ago in sofia-sip 1.12.4 (plus some patches through 12/21/2006) to in tree libs with git-svn-id: http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/trunk@3774 d0543943-73ff-0310-b7d9-9358b9ac24b2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
freeswitch sofia-sip < 1.13.11 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-4 —
Debian 13 sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-4 —
Debian 12 sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-4 —
Debian 11 sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb11u1 DSA-5410-1
Debian 10 sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u2 DLA-3292-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.22.04.1 USN-5932-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.20.04.1 USN-5932-1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3build0.18.04.1 USN-5932-1
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS sofia-sip 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1 USN-5932-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.16 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.15 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —
Alpine v3.14 sofia-sip 1.13.11-r0 —

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