CVE-2011-4598

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The handle_request_info function in channels/chan_sip.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.6.2.x before 1.6.2.21 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7.2, when automon is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted sequence of SIP requests.

Affected products

Digium Asterisk: 1.8.0, 1.8.0-beta1, 1.8.0-beta2, 1.8.0-beta3, 1.8.0-beta4, 1.8.0-beta5 (+74)

References

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-014.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/09/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/09/4
http://osvdb.org/77598
http://secunia.com/advisories/47273
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2367
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-014.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/09/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/09/4
http://osvdb.org/77598
http://secunia.com/advisories/47273
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2367

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