GHSA-j2mm-57pq-jh94: Asterisk: Possible RED T.140 Generation Accumulation OOB Write

Published Oct 27, 2026
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Updated

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. In affected deployments, an authenticated attacker may cause a T.140 RED out-of-bounds write during generation accumulation using carefully crafted packets, potentially allowing remote code execution or causing Asterisk to crash. The chansip channel driver must be installed and configured, and its textsupport option must be enabled; textsupport defaults to no. The chansip 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 chansip driver was removed there.

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Asterisk to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 20.20.1
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Asterisk to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 21.12.3
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Asterisk to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 22.10.1
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade Asterisk to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 23.4.1
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade Certified Asterisk to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 20.7-cert11
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade Certified Asterisk to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 22.8-cert3

Event History

Oct 27, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·04:59 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·04:59 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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