Critical
Security advisory
The Kamailio SIP before 5.5.0 server mishandles INVITE requests with duplicated fields and overlength tag, leading to a buffer overflow that crashes the server or possibly have unspecified other impact.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27507
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Kamailio SIP before 5.5.0 server mishandles INVITE requests with duplicated fields and overlength tag, leading to a buffer overflow that crashes the server or possibly have unspecified other impact.
osv:CVE-2020-27507
Complete source record
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