Title : Asterisk Skinny Channel Driver Data Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4097 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5444
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-10-19
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Asterisk, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "get_input()" [chan_skinny.c] function when processing malformed data received via port 2000/TCP, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to compromise a vulnerable system.
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