Use After Free in Asterisk
CVE-2026-57187
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3, an authenticated attacker may cause a heap-use-after-free in `PJSIP TCP/SDP` handling by sending a `SIP INVITE` over a connection-oriented transport and disconnecting before Asterisk responds with the `200 OK`. So far, the crash has only been reproduced when Asterisk is built with `Address Sanitizer`, which detects the issue. `Address Sanitizer` is a development tool with significant performance overhead and, according to the maintainer, is not used in production systems. This issue is fixed in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3.
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
Published .
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Affected products
- Asterisk — versions < 20.20.1, >= 21.0.0-pre1, < 21.12.3, >= 22.0.0-pre1, < 22.10.1
- Asterisk Certified-Asterisk — versions < 20.7-cert11, >= 22.8-cert1-pre1, < 22.8-cert3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-g8q2-p36q-94f6
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/0f076168e0be31ebee37762192d0ee049e9c0d42
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/27b9544b32f059a4f614169243eaa7559f622aa0
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/6e1f4df744369d66ea6f412e355d819b2a7bf26c
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/9e0386c6d259f0c7499d52499d9891bee8a494fa
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/b7ba85458796ef54b471017287c7806095dbda76
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/d4e30005940f86942745bcc64f34748d69870247
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/f1e47621472bb3d8ad71f32823f5ca986e008437
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/20.20.1
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/21.12.3