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title: "CVE-2007-2294\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-2294

Publication date 26 April 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

The Manager Interface in Asterisk before 1.2.18 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by using MD5
authentication to authenticate a user that does not have a password defined
in manager.conf, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| asterisk | 9.10 karmic | Fixed 1:1.4.3dfsg-1 |
| 9.04 jaunty | Fixed 1:1.4.3dfsg-1 |
| 8.10 intrepid | Fixed 1:1.4.3dfsg-1 |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Fixed 1:1.4.3dfsg-1 |
| 7.10 gutsy | Fixed 1:1.4.3dfsg-1 |
| 7.04 feisty | Fixed 1.2.16~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1 |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 1.2.12.1.dfsg-1ubuntu1.4 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Ignored end of life |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2294)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2294)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-2294)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2294)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2294>