Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-4103 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Digium Asterisk and Asterisk Appliance Developer KIT
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) in Asterisk Open 1.2.x before 1.2.23, 1.4.x before 1.4.9, and Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit before 0.6.0, when configured to allow unauthenticated calls, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of calls that do not complete a 3-way handshake, which causes an ast_channel to be allocated but not released.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- HTTP DoS An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
Nessus
NASL family | Gentoo Local Security Checks |
NASL id | GENTOO_GLSA-200802-11.NASL |
description | The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200802-11 (Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk: Russel Bryant reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) when bridging calls between chan_iax2 and any channel driver that uses RTP for media (CVE-2007-3762). Chris Clark and Zane Lackey (iSEC Partners) reported a NULL pointer dereference in the IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) (CVE-2007-3763). Will Drewry (Google Security) reported a vulnerability in the Skinny channel driver (chan_skinny), resulting in an overly large memcpy (CVE-2007-3764). Will Drewry (Google Security) reported a vulnerability in the IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2), that does not correctly handle unauthenticated transactions using a 3-way handshake (CVE-2007-4103). Impact : By sending a long voice or video RTP frame, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code on the target machine. Sending specially crafted LAGRQ or LAGRP frames containing information elements of IAX frames, or a certain data length value in a crafted packet, or performing a flood of calls not completing a 3-way handshake, could result in a Denial of Service. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 31294 |
published | 2008-02-27 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31294 |
title | GLSA-200802-11 : Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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References
- http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asa/ASA-2007-018.pdf
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018472
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26274
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24950
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2960
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185713
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-11.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29051
- http://osvdb.org/38197
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2701
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475069/100/0/threaded