Digium Asterisk prior 10.0.0 resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Digium Asterisk (Communications System). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

channels/chan_sip.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.13.1 and 10.x before 10.5.2, Asterisk Business Edition C.3.x before C.3.7.5, Certified Asterisk 1.8.11-certx before 1.8.11-cert4, and Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x.x-digiumphones before 10.5.2-digiumphones does not properly handle a provisional response to a SIP reINVITE request, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (RTP port exhaustion) via sessions that lack final responses.

The weakness was published 07/09/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared at downloads.asterisk.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-3863 since 07/06/2012. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 60064 (Asterisk Endpoint Provisional Response Parsing RTP Port Consumption Remote DoS (AST-2012-010)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc..

Upgrading to version 10.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (60064). Similar entry is available at 61231.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 60064
Nessus Name: Asterisk Endpoint Provisional Response Parsing RTP Port Consumption Remote DoS (AST-2012-010)
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OpenVAS ID: 72408
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2550-1 (asterisk)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Asterisk 10.0.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: digium.com

Advisory: dsa-2550
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2012-3863 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 35738 - Multiple Asterisk Products \x27channels/chan_sip.c\x27 Remote Authenticated DoS Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 54327 - Asterisk Uncompleted Re-invite Transactions Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 50687 - Debian update for asterisk, Moderately Critical

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 12/05/2021 21:36
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (60), 04/15/2017 16:01 (13), 12/05/2021 21:12 (3), 12/05/2021 21:22 (1), 12/05/2021 21:36 (1)
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