CVE-2008-1289
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 11.5% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1296)
- Published
- March 24, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1296 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- asterisk / asterisk appliance developer kit
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisknow
- asterisk / open source
- asterisk / open source
- asterisk / s800i
References
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-002.html
- http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200803-01.txt(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29426(Vendor Advisory)
- 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(Exploit)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0928
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41302
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41305
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00438.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00514.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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