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Secunia Advisory SA20497

Asterisk IAX2 Channel Driver Code Execution Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA20497

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Release Date

2006-06-07

Last Update

2006-06-13

Popularity

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From local network

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

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Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Software:

Asterisk 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2006-2898 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Core Security Technologies has reported a vulnerability in Asterisk, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error within the IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) and can be exploited to corrupt memory in a way that allows execution of arbitrary code via a malicious IAX2 client.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.2.9.1 and prior to 1.0.11.1.

Solution
Update to version 1.2.9.1 or 1.0.11.1.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Damian Saura, Alejandro Lozanoff, Eduardo Koch, Norberto Kueffner, and Ivan Arce from Core Security Technologies.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Asterisk:
http://www.asterisk.org/node/95

Corelabs:
http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=547&idxseccion=10

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