CVE-2018-8828

Publication date 20 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

High

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
kamailio 19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.3.4-1.1ubuntu2.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-4240-1
    • Kamailio vulnerability
    • 16 January 2020

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