[ GLSA 200802-11 ] Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200802-11)
Severity: high
Exploitable: remote
Date: February 26, 2008
Bug(s): #185713
ID: 200802-11

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk.

Background

Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and tool kit.

Affected Packages

Package: net-misc/asterisk
Vulnerable: < 1.2.21.1-r1
Unaffected: >= 1.2.17-r1 < 1.2.18
Unaffected: >= 1.2.21.1-r1
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk:

• Russel Bryant reported a stack buffer overflow in the IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) when bridging calls between chan_iax2 and any channel driver that uses RTP for media (CVE-2007-3762).
• Chris Clark and Zane Lackey (iSEC Partners) reported a NULL pointer dereference in the IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) (CVE-2007-3763).
• Will Drewry (Google Security) reported a vulnerability in the Skinny channel driver (chan_skinny), resulting in an overly large memcpy (CVE-2007-3764).
• Will Drewry (Google Security) reported a vulnerability in the IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2), that does not correctly handle unauthenticated transactions using a 3-way handshake (CVE-2007-4103).

Impact

By sending a long voice or video RTP frame, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code on the target machine. Sending specially crafted LAGRQ or LAGRP frames containing information elements of IAX frames, or a certain data length value in a crafted packet, or performing a flood of calls not completing a 3-way handshake, could result in a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Asterisk users should upgrade to the latest version: