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>> Asterisk Products IAX2 Channel Driver Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Asterisk Products IAX2 Channel Driver Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2701
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4103
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-07-30


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A vulnerability has been identified in various Asterisk products, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in the IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) when processing multiple NEW packets for valid extensions, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service condition.

Affected Products

Asterisk Open Source versions 1.2.20 through 1.2.22
Asterisk Open Source versions 1.4.5 through 1.4.8
AsteriskNOW version beta6
Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit version 0.5.0
Asterisk Appliance s800i 1.0.0-beta5 through 1.0.2

Solution

Upgrade to Asterisk version 1.2.23 or 1.4.9 :
ftp://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk

Upgrade to AsteriskNOW beta7 :
http://www.asterisknow.org

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

Upgrade to Asterisk Appliance s800i version 1.0.3 :
http://www.digium.com/en/supportcenter/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2701
http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asa/ASA-2007-018.pdf

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Russell Bryant.

ChangeLog

2007-07-30 : Initial release

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