CVE-2026-57197
Received Received - Intake

Heap Buffer Overflow in Asterisk via OGG/Speex

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-57197, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-27

Last updated on: 2026-10-27

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3, an unbounded `memcpy` of `OGG/Speex` packet data in `format_ogg_speex` can cause a heap buffer overflow and crash Asterisk when reading a file containing corrupted Speex audio. The attacker must create the file and make it available to Asterisk either through sufficiently elevated privileges or by convincing an Asterisk administrator to make it available. Asterisk must also be configured to play that file. This issue is fixed in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3.

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Published
2026-10-27
Last Modified
2026-10-27
Generated
2026-10-27
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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Affected Vendors & Products

Showing 6 associated CPEs
Vendor Product Version / Range
asterisk asterisk < 20.20.1
asterisk asterisk >= 21.0.0-pre1, < 21.12.3
asterisk asterisk >= 22.0.0-pre1, < 22.10.1
asterisk asterisk >= 23.0.0-pre1, < 23.4.1
asterisk certified-asterisk < 20.7-cert11
asterisk certified-asterisk >= 22.8-cert1-pre1, < 22.8-cert3

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Exploitability

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CWE-122 A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
CWE-787 The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

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