Asterisk IAX2 Channel Driver Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA26274
Release Date: 2007-07-30
Last Update: 2007-07-31
Popularity: 6,662 views

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

Software:Asterisk 1.x
Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-4103


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

The vulnerability is caused due to the IAX2 Channel Driver improperly processing "NEW" packets. This can be exploited to allocate resources that are never freed by sending multiple "NEW" packets for valid extensions to the server.

Successful exploitation results in a DoS, but requires that the IAX2 Channel Driver is configured to allow unauthenticated calls.

The vulnerability is reported in the following products:
Asterisk Open Source 1.2.x version 1.2.20, 1.2.21, 1.2.21.1, and 1.2.22
Asterisk Open Source 1.4.x version 1.4.5, 1.4.7, 1.4.7.1 and 1.4.8
AsteriskNOW pre-release version beta6
Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit 0.5.0
s800i versions 1.0.0-beta5 to 1.0.2.

Solution:
Asterisk Open Source 1.2.x:
Update to version 1.2.23.
ftp://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk

Asterisk Open Source 1.4.x:
Update to version 1.4.9.
ftp://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk

AsteriskNOW pre-release:
Update to version beta7.
http://www.asterisknow.org

Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit:
Update to version 0.6.0.
ftp://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/aadk

s800i:
Update to version 1.0.3.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Russel Bryant

Changelog:
2007-07-31: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asa/ASA-2007-018.pdf


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