Improper Input Validation Affecting asterisk package, versions <1.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.37% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-ASTERISK-526663
  • published4 Jun 2008
  • disclosed4 Jun 2008

Introduced: 4 Jun 2008

CVE-2008-2119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 asterisk to version 1.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream asterisk package and not the asterisk package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Asterisk Open Source 1.0.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.29 and Business Edition A.x.x and B.x.x before B.2.5.3, when pedantic parsing (aka pedanticsipchecking) is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a SIP INVITE message that lacks a From header, related to invocations of the ast_uri_decode function, and improper handling of (1) an empty const string and (2) a NULL pointer.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1