AST-2007-020: Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability in Asterisk SIP channel driver
Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2007-020
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| Product | Asterisk |
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| Summary | Resource Exhaustion 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 | Moderate |
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| Exploits Known | No |
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| Reported On | August 9, 2007 |
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| Reported By | Jon Moldenauer (bugs.digium.com user |
| | jmoldenhauer) |
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| Posted On | August 21, 2007 |
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| Last Updated On | August 21, 2007 |
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| Advisory Contact | Russell Bryant <russell@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| CVE Name | CVE-2007-4455 |
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| Description | The handling of SIP dialog history was broken during the |
| | development of Asterisk 1.4. Regardless of whether |
| | recording SIP dialog history is turned on or off, the |
| | history is still recorded in memory. Furthermore, there |
| | is no upper limit on how many history items will be |
| | stored for a given SIP dialog. |
| | |
| | It is possible for an attacker to use up all of the |
| | system's memory by creating a SIP dialog that records |
| | many entires in the history and never ends. It is also |
| | worth noting for the sake of doing the math to calculate |
| | what it would take to exploit this that each SIP history |
| | entry will take up a maximum of 88 bytes. |
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| Resolution | The fix that has been added to chan_sip is to restore the |
| | functionality where SIP dialog history is not recorded in |
| | memory if it is not enabled. Furthermore, a maximum of 50 |
| | entires in the history will be stored for each dialog |
| | when recording history is turned on. |
| | |
| | The only way to avoid this problem in affected versions |
| | of Asterisk is to disable chan_sip. If chan_sip is being |
| | used, the system must be upgraded to a version that has |
| | this issue resolved. |
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| Affected Versions |
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| Product | Release | |
| | Series | |
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| Asterisk Open Source | 1.0.x | Not affected |
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| Asterisk Open Source | 1.2.x | Not affected |
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| Asterisk Open Source | 1.4.x | All versions prior to |
| | | 1.4.11 |
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| Asterisk Business Edition | A.x.x | Not affected |
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| Asterisk Business Edition | B.x.x | Not affected |
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| AsteriskNOW | pre-release | All versions prior to |
| | | beta7 |
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| Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit | 0.x.x | All versions prior to |
| | | 0.8.0 |
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| s800i (Asterisk Appliance) | 1.0.x | All versions prior to |
| | | 1.0.3 |
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| Corrected In |
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| Product | Release |
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| Asterisk Open | 1.4.11, available from |
| Source | http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk |
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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 | 0.8.0, available from |
| Appliance | http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/aadk |
| Developer Kit | |
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| s800i | 1.0.3 |
| (Asterisk | |
| Appliance) | |
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| Links | http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10421 |
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| | http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10418 |
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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/asa/AST-2007-020.pdf and |
| http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asa/AST-2007-020.html. |
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| Revision History |
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| Date | Editor | Revisions Made |
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| August 21, 2007 | russell@xxxxxxxxxx | Initial Release |
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Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2007-020
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