[asterisk-dev] AST-2007-020: Resource Exhaustion vulnerability in SIP channel driver

[The Asterisk Development Team]

               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 at digium.com>               |
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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    |                       |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |       Asterisk Open Source       |    1.0.x    | Not affected          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |       Asterisk Open Source       |    1.2.x    | Not affected          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |       Asterisk Open Source       |    1.4.x    | All versions prior to |
   |                                  |             | 1.4.11                |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |    Asterisk Business Edition     |    A.x.x    | Not affected          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |    Asterisk Business Edition     |    B.x.x    | Not affected          |
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   |           AsteriskNOW            | pre-release | All versions prior to |
   |                                  |             | beta7                 |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   | Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit |    0.x.x    | All versions prior to |
   |                                  |             | 0.8.0                 |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |    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                         |
   |---------------+--------------------------------------------------------|
   | Asterisk Open |                 1.4.11, available from                 |
   |    Source     |   http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk   |
   |---------------+--------------------------------------------------------|
   |  AsteriskNOW  |   Beta7, available from http://www.asterisknow.org/.   |
   |               |   Beta5 and Beta6 users can update using the system    |
   |               |     update feature in the appliance control panel.     |
   |---------------+--------------------------------------------------------|
   |   Asterisk    |                 0.8.0, available from                  |
   |   Appliance   |     http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/aadk     |
   | Developer Kit |                                                        |
   |---------------+--------------------------------------------------------|
   |     s800i     |                         1.0.3                          |
   |   (Asterisk   |                                                        |
   |  Appliance)   |                                                        |
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   |      Links       | http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10421            |
   |                  |                                                     |
   |                  | http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10418            |
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   | Asterisk Project Security Advisories are posted at                     |
   | http://www.asterisk.org/security.                                      |
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   | 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 at digium.com     | Initial Release         |
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               Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2007-020
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