Bug 2564839 - CVE-2026-57198 asterisk: Asterisk: Arbitrary code execution via heap buffer overflow in T.140 RED handling [fedora-44]
Summary: CVE-2026-57198 asterisk: Asterisk: Arbitrary code execution via heap buffer o...
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Status: ON_QA
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: asterisk
Version: 44
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Peter Lemenkov
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-57198
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Reported: 2026-11-02 09:55 UTC by gkamathe
Modified: 2026-11-03 02:57 UTC (History)
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Description gkamathe 2026-11-02 09:55:24 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. In affected deployments, an authenticated attacker may cause a `T.140 RED` heap buffer overflow using carefully crafted packets, potentially allowing remote code execution or causing Asterisk to crash. The `chan_sip` channel driver must be installed and configured, and its `textsupport` option must be enabled; `textsupport` defaults to no. `The chan_sip driver was deprecated in Asterisk 20 and completely removed in all later versions.` Repository comparisons verify patch containment in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1 and 23.4.1, and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11 and 22.8-cert3. The affected release-track scope remains unresolved: structured metadata includes later release tracks even though the advisory says the required `chan_sip` driver was removed there.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-11-02 14:52:37 UTC
FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf (asterisk-18.26.4-2.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-11-03 02:57:55 UTC
FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.


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