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…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 11.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Asterisk 1.4.x - RTP Codec Payload Handling Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31440dos, linuxpublished 18 Mar 2008Verified
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Timeline
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By mitre
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.5% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
14
- 28308 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 3763 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200803-01.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- asterisk-rtp-codecpayload-bo(41305) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1019628 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 29426 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.asterisk.org/node/48466 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-2554 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 20080318 AST-2008-002: Two buffer overflows in RTP Codec Payload Handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0928 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-002.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-2620 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- asterisk-rtppayload-bo(41302) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 29470 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-1296 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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