CVE-2011-4598: Digium Asterisk

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The handle_request_info function in channels/chan_sip.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.6.2.x before 1.6.2.21 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7.2, when automon is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted sequence of SIP requests.

Affected products

  • Digium Asterisk: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.1.1 only; version 1.8.1.2 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.2.1 only; …

Published 2011-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.