Medium
Security advisory
A stack-based buffer overflow in res_rtp_asterisk.c in Sangoma Asterisk before 16.16.1, 17.x before 17.9.2, and 18.x before 18.2.1 and Certified Asterisk before 16.8-cert6 allows an authenticated WebRTC client to cause an Asterisk crash by sending multiple hold/unhold requests in quick succession. This is caused by a signedness comparison mismatch.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-26713
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A stack-based buffer overflow in res_rtp_asterisk.c in Sangoma Asterisk before 16.16.1, 17.x before 17.9.2, and 18.x before 18.2.1 and Certified Asterisk before 16.8-cert6 allows an authenticated WebRTC client to cause an Asterisk crash by sending multiple hold/unhold requests in quick succession. This is caused by a signedness comparison mismatch.
osv:CVE-2021-26713
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:48.216071072Z",
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"references": [
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"https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2021-004.html",
"https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29205"
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