# CVE-2012-5977: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service via resource exhaustion in Asterisk when anonymous calls are enabled.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 4 Jan 2013
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5977, GHSA-43h5-hjxq-m9rj

## What is CVE-2012-5977?

CVE-2012-5977 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Digium Asterisk, published on 4 Jan 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.19.1, 10.x before 10.11.1, and 11.x before 11.1.2; Certified Asterisk 1.8.11 before 1.8.11-cert10; and Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x-digiumphones before 10.11.1-digiumphones, when anonymous calls are enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by making anonymous calls from multiple sources and consequently adding many entries to the device state cache.

Weakness: CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5977?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Digium Asterisk, Digium Certified Asterisk.

## How do I fix CVE-2012-5977?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2012-5977 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5977 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Digium Asterisk

- [CVE-2017-14100](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-14100/): Command injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2014-8418](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-8418/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2011-1599](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-1599/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2017-16671](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16671/): Memory corruption in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2017-7617](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7617/): Memory corruption in n/a (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-5977 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2012-5977 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Digium Asterisk, published on 4 Jan 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5977 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Digium Asterisk. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-5977/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-5977/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5977
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5977
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-5977

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-5977/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.