[asterisk-dev] UDPTL crash anyone?

Steve Underwood steveu at coppice.org
Tue Jan 13 07:02:56 CST 2009


Atis Lezdins wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:
>   
>> Atis Lezdins wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> There's a crash in udptl.c and from my limited knowledge it could be
>>> security vulnerability, thay's why it's been set as private in
>>> bugtracker.
>>>
>>> Can anybody with knowledge of udptl.c take a look at it and
>>> confirm/reject exploit options? It's been hanging around for 2 months
>>> already.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Atis
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I wonder how similar that code is to when I donated it to Asterisk? I
>> seem to remember we cleaned up one or two crash issues when we put the
>> same basic code into Callweaver, but its along time ago, and I can't
>> remember the details. You could try comparing the udptl.c file in
>> Callweaver 1.2.0.1 with the current Asterisk code. Apart from the
>> obvious changes of "ast_" to "cw_" you might find its still similar
>> enough to easily spot some relevant differences.
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> There's a patch in bugtracker uploaded by Tilghman (issue 13600). I
> tested it last night, it seems to not break anything but it would be
> good if you check it for logic. I added some error output on
> conditions where it would crash, tested with approximately 350 faxes
> but didn't succeeded in reproducing. Previously this has been very
> rare on our production (~1 crash per 2-3 months). I'll keep testing
> and post results in bugtracker this week.
>
> >From what i can tell comparing this function with Callweaver, it
> should be affected too. It would be good if two of those bugfix
> releases would get synchronized.
>   
Did you get the number wrong? 13600 doesn't seem to exist.

Steve




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