CVE-2006-5444

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 86.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the get_input function in the Skinny channel driver (chan_skinny.c) in Asterisk 1.0.x before 1.0.12 and 1.2.x before 1.2.13, as used by Cisco SCCP phones, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a certain dlen value that passes a signed integer comparison and leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Digium Asterisk: 0.1.7, 0.1.8, 0.1.9, 0.1.9.1, 0.2, 0.3 (+20)

References

http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.0.12
http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.2.13
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/050171.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22480
http://secunia.com/advisories/22651
http://secunia.com/advisories/22979
http://secunia.com/advisories/23212
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017089
http://www.asterisk.org/node/109
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-15.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/521252
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_69_asterisk.html

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