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asterisk — security advisory
An issue was discovered in Asterisk through 19.x. When using STIR/SHAKEN, it is possible to download files that are not certificates. These files could be much larger than what one would expect to download, leading to Resource Exhaustion. This is fixed in 16.25.2, 18.11.2, and 19.3.2.
- Products
- asterisk
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 18.11.2-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-26498
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Asterisk through 19.x. When using STIR/SHAKEN, it is possible to download files that are not certificates. These files could be much larger than what one would expect to download, leading to Resource Exhaustion. This is fixed in 16.25.2, 18.11.2, and 19.3.2.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2022-26498
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
asterisk
Fixed versions: 18.11.2-r0
Complete source record
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