CVE-2018-8828
highpriority · attend · 50EPSS 0.304 · 98 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (6)
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references (14)
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- https://github.com/EnableSecurity/advisories/tree/master/ES2018-05-kamailio-heap-overflowcnnvd
- https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/e1d8008a09d9390ebaf698abe8909e10dfec4097cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155988/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-4240-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4240-1/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.0193/cnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4148cnnvd
- https://github.com/EnableSecurity/advisories/tree/master/ES2018-05-kamailio-heap-overflowenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/e1d8008a09d9390ebaf698abe8909e10dfec4097enisa_euvd
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