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asterisk -- Infinite loop when reading iostreams

Affected packages
		asterisk15	<	15.4.1

Details

VuXML ID	f14ce57f-6dc8-11e8-a671-001999f8d30b
Discovery	2018-06-11
Entry	2018-06-11

The Asterisk project reports:

When connected to Asterisk via TCP/TLS if the client abruptly disconnects, or sends a specially crafted message then Asterisk gets caught in an infinite loop while trying to read the data stream. Thus rendering the system as unusable.

[source]

References

URL	https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-007.html