Asterisk Remote Crash Vulnerability (AST-2016-006)
🗓️ 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| downloads | www.downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-006.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:digium:asterisk";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106240");
script_version("2023-12-20T12:22:41+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-12-20 12:22:41 +0000 (Wed, 20 Dec 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-09-12 12:33:46 +0700 (Mon, 12 Sep 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Asterisk Remote Crash Vulnerability (AST-2016-006)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_digium_asterisk_sip_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("digium/asterisk/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Asterisk is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Asterisk can be crashed remotely by sending an ACK to it from an
endpoint username that Asterisk does not recognize. Most SIP request types result in an 'artificial'
endpoint being looked up, but ACKs bypass this lookup. The resulting NULL pointer results in a crash
when attempting to determine if ACLs should be applied.
This issue only affects users using the PJSIP stack with Asterisk. Those users that use chan_sip
are unaffected.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An unauthenticated remote attacker may cause a denial of service
condition.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Asterisk Open Source 13.10.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 13.11.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-006.html");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
exit(0);
if (version =~ "^13\.10") {
if (version_is_equal(version: version, test_version: "13.10.0")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "13.11.1");
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: "udp");
exit(0);
}
}
exit(0);
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