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critical 9.8

CVE-2021-43301 json

Stack overflow in PJSUA API when calling pjsua_playlist_create.

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-30244

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Stack overflow in PJSUA API when calling pjsua_playlist_create. An attacker-controlled 'file_names' argument may cause a buffer overflow since it is copied to a fixed-size stack buffer without any size validation.

Patch / fix

  • ring Debian 12 20230206.0~ds1-1
  • asterisk Debian 14 1:18.11.1~dfsg+~cs6.10.40431413-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43301

  • ring Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 20190215.1.f152c98~ds1-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1
  • ring Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 20180228.1.503da2b~ds1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • pjproject Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.1.0.0.ast20130823-1+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • pjproject Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.7.2~dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-43301

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • pjproject Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 2.12-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-43301

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2021-43301 updated

pjproject: Stack overflow in PJSUA API when calling pjsua_playlist_create

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • teluu pjsip

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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