Alpine: multiple asterisk packages: security update to 15.6.0-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400682

Description

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

- There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk through
13.23.0, 14.7.x through 14.7.7, and 15.x through 15.6.0 and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-cert2. It
allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a
websocket. (CVE-2018-17281)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=8089cfe10d606da742454a8b431ce51cc317ec17

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=d5cca069111b327438185e1bf7507b292a3b931d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400682

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17281

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17281

BID: 105389

IAVA: 2018-A-0304-S