A Remote Crash issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13.x before 13.18.4, 14.x before 14.7.4, and 15.x before 15.1.4 and Certified Asterisk before 13.13-cert9. Certain compound RTCP packets cause a crash in the RTCP Stack.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A Remote Crash issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13.x before 13.18.4, 14.x before 14.7.4, and     15.x before 15.1.4 and Certified Asterisk before 13.13-cert9. Certain compound RTCP packets cause a crash     in the RTCP Stack. (CVE-2017-17664)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, an open source PBX and telephony toolkit, which may result in denial of service, information disclosure and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

Update to upstream 13.18.4 release to address AST-2017-012/CVE-2017-17664 security issue

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
252392	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-17664	Nessus	Misc.	medium
105498	Debian DSA-4076-1 : asterisk - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
105473	Fedora 26 : asterisk (2017-38fbcdffc3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2017-17664

medium

Tenable Plugins

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high

medium