A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Kamailio before 4.4.7, 5.0.x before 5.0.6, and 5.1.x before 5.1.2. A specially crafted REGISTER message with a malformed branch or From tag triggers an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in the tmx_check_pretran function in modules/tmx/tmx_pretran.c.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Kamailio before 4.4.7, 5.0.x before 5.0.6, and 5.1.x before
    5.1.2. A specially crafted REGISTER message with a malformed branch or From tag triggers an off-by-one
    heap-based buffer overflow in the tmx_check_pretran function in modules/tmx/tmx_pretran.c. (CVE-2018-8828)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4240-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Kamailio incorrectly handled a specially crafted file. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

A specially crafted REGISTER message with a malformed branch or From tag triggers an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in the tmx_check_pretran function in modules/tmx/tmx_pretran.c

Alfred Farrugia and Sandro Gauci discovered an off-by-one heap overflow in the Kamailio SIP server which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
405071	Alpine: kamailio: security update to 5.0.2-r2	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
405071	Alpine: kamailio: security update to 5.0.2-r2	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
405070	Alpine: kamailio: security update to 4.4.5-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
405070	Alpine: kamailio: security update to 4.4.5-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
405069	Alpine: kamailio: security update to 4.4.0-r2	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
405069	Alpine: kamailio: security update to 4.4.0-r2	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
133039	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Kamailio vulnerability (USN-4240-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
109662	FreeBSD : kamailio - buffer overflow (5af6378b-bd88-4997-bccc-b9ba2daecdd2)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical
108570	Debian DSA-4148-1 : kamailio - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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