# CVE-2013-2686: main/http.c in the HTTP server in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.20.2, 10.x before 10.12.2, and 11.x before 11.2.2; Certified Asteris

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2013-03-29 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

main/http.c in the HTTP server in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.20.2, 10.x before 10.12.2, and 11.x before 11.2.2; Certified Asterisk 1.8.15 before 1.8.15-cert2; and Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x-digiumphones before 10.12.2-digiumphones does not properly restrict Content-Length values, which allows remote attackers to conduct stack-consumption attacks and cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted HTTP POST request. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-5976.

## What to do

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## References

- https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20967
- http://telussecuritylabs.com/threats/show/TSL20130327-01
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2013-002.html

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