CVE-2026-57198: low-severity vulnerability in asterisk
Asterisk: Possible RED T.140 Heap Buffer Overflow
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 2.3epss 0.8%
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. In affected deployments, an authenticated attacker may cause a `T.140 RED` heap buffer overflow using carefully crafted packets, potentially allowing remote code execution or causing Asterisk to crash. The `chan_sip` channel driver must be installed and configured, and its `textsupport` option must be enabled; `textsupport` defaults to no. `The chan_sip driver was deprecated in Asterisk 20 and completely removed in all later versions.` Repository comparisons verify patch containment in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1 and 23.4.1, and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11 and 22.8-cert3. The affected release-track scope remains unresolved: structured metadata includes later release tracks even though the advisory says the required `chan_sip` driver was removed there.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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References
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/0601c33d4edf8c8f221de91cead59460fb1e7180https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/111487298a954a029daae941eac423f0609b1261https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/536218a86b797996e8e8844deacc8207de373701https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/a89b61d7c756f816c7fa5327ead9e889f1531202https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/eaa108c68a32c080d7a168ef1d8bf784d5d830f4https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/eef894282be203cb9e6d8e9692e9c360a0b569b4https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/fde69a1f3ff17f507a1578ae27b528f43ceb5efdhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/20.20.1https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/21.12.3https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/22.10.1https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/23.4.1https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/certified-20.7-cert11