CVE-2008-2119

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    CVE-2008-2119

    Published: 4 Jun 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/30517, http://secunia.com/advisories/34982, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-01.xml, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1731, http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12607, http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-008.html, http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&revision=120109, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493020/100/0/threaded, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020166, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42823, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5749

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High