CVE-2012-5976
MEDIUMEPSS 86th pctlDescription
Multiple stack consumption vulnerabilities in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.19.1, 10.x before 10.11.1, and 11.x before 11.1.2; Certified Asterisk 1.8.11 before 1.8.11-cert10; and Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x-digiumphones before 10.11.1-digiumphones allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via TCP data using the (1) SIP, (2) HTTP, or (3) XMPP protocol.
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 86% of all known CVEs.
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