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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-57165 EUVD-2026-71659

PJSIP: Pre-authentication overflow in the telnet CLI history

Published Sep 4, 2026 · Updated Sep 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in C. Prior to commit 628b716, a stack buffer overflow exists in the PJLIB-UTIL telnet CLI front-end when redrawing the command line during history recall (handle_up_down() in cli_telnet.c). This affects only applications that enable the telnet CLI front-end (same gating as the related CLI issue). The line-redraw sequence for a recalled history entry can accumulate more data than a fixed-size stack buffer holds, which may lead to application termination. Exploitation requires access to the unauthenticated telnet CLI, which already permits arbitrary CLI commands, so the additional impact is limited. Applications that do not enable the telnet CLI front-end are not affected. This issue has been patched via commit 628b716.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pjsip pjproject < 628b71638465bacf66e767959e6acbab822eccd6 —

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 asterisk No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS pjproject No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS asterisk +1 No fix yet —

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