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AST-2008-001: Crash from transfer using BYE with Also header
Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2008-001

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| Product | Asterisk |
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| Summary | Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver |
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| Nature of Advisory | Denial of Service |
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| Susceptibility | Remote Unauthenticated Sessions |
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| Severity | Critical |
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| Exploits Known | No |
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| Reported On | December 26, 2007 |
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| Reported By | Grey VoIP (bugs.digium.com user greyvoip) |
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| Posted On | January 2, 2008 |
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| Last Updated On | January 2, 2008 |
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| Advisory Contact | Joshua Colp <jcolp@digium.com> |
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| CVE Name | |
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| Description | The handling of the BYE with Also transfer method was |
| | broken during the development of Asterisk 1.4. If a |
| | transfer attempt is made using this method the system |
| | will immediately crash upon handling the BYE message due |
| | to trying to copy data into a NULL pointer. It is |
| | important to note that a dialog must have already been |
| | established and up in order for this to happen. |
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| Resolution | A fix has been added so that the BYE with Also transfer |
| | method now properly allocates and uses the transfer data |
| | structure. It will no longer try to copy data into a NULL |
| | pointer and will operate properly. |
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| Affected Versions |
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| Product | Release | |
| | Series | |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| Asterisk Open Source | 1.0.x | Unaffected |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| Asterisk Open Source | 1.2.x | Unaffected |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| Asterisk Open Source | 1.4.x | All versions prior to |
| | | 1.4.17 |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| Asterisk Business Edition | A.x.x | Unaffected |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| Asterisk Business Edition | B.x.x | Unaffected |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| Asterisk Business Edition | C.x.x | All versions prior to |
| | | C.1.0-beta8 |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| AsteriskNOW | pre-release | All versions prior to beta7 |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| Asterisk Appliance | SVN | All versions prior to |
| Developer Kit | | Asterisk 1.4 revision 95946 |
|----------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------|
| s800i (Asterisk Appliance) | 1.0.x | All versions prior to |
| | | 1.0.3.4 |
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| Corrected In |
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| Product | Release |
|---------------+--------------------------------------------------------|
| Asterisk Open | 1.4.17, available from |
| Source | http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk |
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| Asterisk | C.1.0 |
| Business | |
| Edition | |
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| AsteriskNOW | Beta7, available from http://www.asterisknow.org/. |
| | |
| | Beta5 and Beta6 users can update using the system |
| | update feature in the appliance control panel. |
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| Asterisk | Asterisk 1.4 revision 95946. Available by performing |
| Appliance | an svn update of the AADK tree. |
| Developer Kit | |
|---------------+--------------------------------------------------------|
| s800i | 1.0.3.4 |
| (Asterisk | |
| Appliance) | |
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| Links | http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=11637 |
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| Asterisk Project Security Advisories are posted at |
| http://www.asterisk.org/security |
| |
| This document may be superseded by later versions; if so, the latest |
| version will be posted at |
| http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-001.pdf and |
| http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-001.html |
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| Revision History |
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| Date | Editor | Revisions Made |
|------------------+--------------------+--------------------------------|
| 2008-01-02 | Joshua Colp | Initial Release |
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Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2008-001
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