A very serious remote denial of service was recently patched in asterisk some limited information on the problem can be found here <a href="http://asterisk.org/taxonomy/term/32">http://asterisk.org/taxonomy/term/32</a> <br>
<br>the bug exists in the asterisk SIP channel driver, anyone using asterisk running SIP is advised to patch their systems as soon as possible. <br><br>i am posting this code to highlight severity of the bug which was fixed in the asterisk release yesterday without much of a description
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