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CVE-2008-1289

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-03-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Asterisk Open Source 1.4.x before 1.4.18.1 and 1.4.19-rc3, Open Source 1.6.x before 1.6.0-beta6, Business Edition C.x.x before C.1.6.1, AsteriskNOW 1.0.x before 1.0.2, Appliance Developer Kit before 1.4 revision 109386, and s800i 1.1.x before 1.1.0.2 allow remote attackers to (1) write a zero to an arbitrary memory location via a large RTP payload number, related to the ast_rtp_unset_m_type function in main/rtp.c; or (2) write certain integers to an arbitrary memory location via a large number of RTP payloads, related to the process_sdp function in channels/chan_sip.c.

Affected products

• Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit: 1.4
• Asterisk Business Edition: through c.1.0-beta8; through c.1.0beta7
• Asterisknow: through 1.0.1
• asterisk Open Source: through 1.4.18; through 1.4.19; through 1.6.0_beta5
• asterisk S800I: through 1.1.0.1

References

• http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-002.html
• http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200803-01.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29426
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29470
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3763
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1019628
• http://www.asterisk.org/node/48466
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489817/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28308
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0928
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41302
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41305

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