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Asterisk SIP Response Code Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA24579
Release Date: 2007-03-22
Last Update: 2007-04-25
Popularity: 10,853 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Asterisk 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1594


Description:
qwerty1979 has reported some vulnerabilities in Asterisk, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to certain errors in the chan_sip driver when processing SIP replies from a remote system and can be exploited to crash the service via the remote system sending a SIP reply containing an invalid SIP response code in the first line of the UDP packet.

The vulnerabilities are reported in the 1.2.x branch before 1.2.18 and the 1.4.x branch before 1.4.3.

Solution:
Update to version 1.4.3.

Provided and/or discovered by:
qwerty1979

Changelog:
2007-04-02: Added CVE reference.
2007-04-25: Updated "Description" and "Solution" sections with new information from the vendor. Added link to vendor advisory.

Original Advisory:
http://www.sineapps.com/news.php?rssid=1707
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=9313

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-April/053967.html


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