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Asterisk Remote Crash Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

General

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Asterisk is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

Asterisk can be crashed remotely by sending an ACK to it from an endpoint username that Asterisk does not recognize. Most SIP request types result in an 'artificial' endpoint being looked up, but ACKs bypass this lookup. The resulting NULL pointer results in a crash when attempting to determine if ACLs should be applied. This issue only affects users using the PJSIP stack with Asterisk. Those users that use chan_sip are unaffected.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Asterisk Open Source 13.10.0

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Version 13.11.1 or later.