CVE-2012-1183: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the milliwatt_generate function in the Miliwatt application in Asterisk 1.4.x before 1.4.44, 1.6.x before 1.6.2.23, 1.8.x before 1.8.10.1, and 10.x before 10.2.1, when the o option is used and the internal_timing option is off, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large number of samples in an audio packet.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 6.0 only
• Digium Asterisk: from 1.4.0, before 1.4.44 (fixed in 1.4.44); from 1.6.0, before 1.6.2.23 (fixed in 1.6.2.23); from 1.8.0, before 1.8.10.1 (fixed in 1.8.10.1); from 10.0.0, before 10.2.1 (fixed in 10.2.1)

Published 2012-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.