CVE-2008-2119
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 7.3% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2116)
- Published
- June 4, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2116 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
- asterisk / asterisk business edition
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References
- http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12607
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-008.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30517
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34982
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-01.xml
- 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
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1731
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42823
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5749
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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