Description
The Skinny channel driver (chan_skinny) in Asterisk before 1.2.22 and 1.4.x before 1.4.8, Business Edition before B.2.2.1, AsteriskNOW before beta7, Appliance Developer Kit before 0.5.0, and s800i before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain data length value in a crafted packet, which results in an "overly large memcpy."
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | asterisk | 1:1.4.8~dfsg-1 | — |
| Debian 4.0 | asterisk | 1:1.2.13~dfsg-2etch1 | DSA-1358-1 |
| Debian 3.1 | asterisk | 1:1.0.7.dfsg.1-2sarge5 | DSA-1358-1 |
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Exploit-DB 1
- Asterisk < 1.2.22/1.4.8/2.2.1 - 'chan_skinny' Remote Denial of Service EDB-4196 · dos · Jul 18, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
Advisories 1
- DSA-1358-1 asterisk Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
References
- 26099 third-party-advisory
- 24950 vdb-entry
- 1018407 vdb-entry
- GLSA-200802-11 vendor-advisory
- 29051 third-party-advisory
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185713
- asterisk-skinny-driver-dos(35478) vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-2563 vdb-entry
- http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asa/ASA-2007-016.pdf
- DSA-1358 vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SR:2007:015 vendor-advisory