# CVE-2023-28097: OpenSIPS has vulnerability in the Content-Length Parser

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.1.9, 3.2.6
- Published: 2023-03-15 · Updated: 2025-02-25

## Affected

- opensips: fixed in 3.1.9; from 3.2.0, fixed in 3.2.6

## Description

OpenSIPS is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server implementation. Prior to versions 3.1.9 and 3.2.6, a malformed SIP message containing a large _Content-Length_ value and a specially crafted Request-URI causes a segmentation fault in OpenSIPS. This issue occurs when a large amount of shared memory using the `-m` flag was allocated to OpenSIPS, such as 10 GB of RAM. On the test system, this issue occurred when shared memory was set to `2362` or higher. This issue is fixed in versions 3.1.9 and 3.2.6. The only workaround is to guarantee that the Content-Length value of input messages is never larger than `2147483647`.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on opensips, upgrade to a fixed version (3.1.9, 3.2.6) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/security/advisories/GHSA-c6j5-f4h4-2xrq
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/commit/7cab422e2fc648f910abba34f3f0dbb3ae171ff5
- https://opensips.org/pub/audit-2022/opensips-audit-technical-report-full.pdf

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