# CVE-2007-2294: The Manager Interface in Asterisk before 1.2.18 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by using

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2007-04-26 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The Manager Interface in Asterisk before 1.2.18 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by using MD5 authentication to authenticate a user that does not have a password defined in manager.conf, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1534
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017955
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_34_asterisk.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/35369
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2646
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25582
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33886
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24977
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23649
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1358
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466911/100/0/threaded
- http://www.asterisk.org/files/ASA-2007-012.pdf

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