[asterisk-users] Recieve_Fax caused crash 1.8.2.3

[Andrew Latham]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Bryant Zimmerman <BryantZ at zktech.com> wrote:
> I had an issue today where receive_fax caused an asterisk switch to crash.
> The switch is 1.8.2.3 version. The call was coming from a fax machine. The
> call started receive_fax answered and then asterisk stopped responding. I
> was able to log into asterisk but it would not do a core restart now nor
> would it take any calls or show an peer registrations.
> I had to kill the asterisk process and restart it.  As best we can tell
> there was no attempt by the sender to intentionally send any malformed
> packets that should have caused this. I see there is a security patch
> 1.8.2.4 that lists some RTP security issues. is it possible that this fix
> may address what I ran into as well?
>
> Thanks
>
> zktech

There are many updates in 1.8.2.4 that may fix your issue.  If you are
running any version of 1.8 it should be a quick update.

~~~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com ~~~