CVE-2008-2119 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2008-2119

Asterisk Open Source 1.0.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.29 and Business...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

asterisk business edition, open source
Vulnerable Versions:
0, b.1.3.2, b.1.3.3, b.2.2.0, b.2.2.1, b.2.3.1, b.2.3.2, b.2.3.3, b.2.3.4, b.2.5.0, b2.5.1, 1.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.0.11, 1.0.11.1, 1.0.12, 1.2.0, 1.2.0beta1, 1.2.0beta2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.10, 1.2.11, 1.2.12, 1.2.12.1, 1.2.13, 1.2.14, 1.2.15, 1.2.16, 1.2.17, 1.2.18, 1.2.19, 1.2.20, 1.2.21, 1.2.21.1, 1.2.22, 1.2.23, 1.2.24, 1.2.25, 1.2.26, 1.2.26.1, 1.2.26.2, 1.2.27

Timeline

Official Publish: June 4th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.