Asterisk is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary-checks on user-supplied data.
Vulnerable Systems:
* Asterisk Asterisk 10.0.1 and prior
An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application or to crash the application, denying service to legitimate users.
Vendor Status:
Vendor as issued an update for this vulnerablity.