Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-4063 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.7/10.0.0
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
chan_sip.c in the SIP channel driver in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.7.1 and 10.x before 10.0.0-rc1 does not properly initialize variables during request parsing, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed request.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2011-14538.NASL description The Asterisk Development Team has announced a security release for Asterisk= 1.8. The available security release is released as version 1.8.7.1. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases The release of Asterisk 1.8.7.1 resolves an issue with SIP URI parsing whic= h can lead to a remotely exploitable crash : Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-012) The issue and resolution is described in the AST-2011-012 security advisory. For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please read t= he security advisory AST-2011-012, which was released at the same time as this announcement. For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog : http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.8= .7.1 Security advisory AST-2011-012 is available at : http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-012.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----= Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 56788 published 2011-11-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56788 title Fedora 15 : asterisk-1.8.7.1-1.fc15 (2011-14538) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2011-14538. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(56788); script_version("1.12"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:34"); script_cve_id("CVE-2011-4063"); script_bugtraq_id(50177); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2011-14538"); script_name(english:"Fedora 15 : asterisk-1.8.7.1-1.fc15 (2011-14538)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The Asterisk Development Team has announced a security release for Asterisk= 1.8. The available security release is released as version 1.8.7.1. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases The release of Asterisk 1.8.7.1 resolves an issue with SIP URI parsing whic= h can lead to a remotely exploitable crash : Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-012) The issue and resolution is described in the AST-2011-012 security advisory. For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please read t= he security advisory AST-2011-012, which was released at the same time as this announcement. For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog : http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.8= .7.1 Security advisory AST-2011-012 is available at : http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-012.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----= Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-012.pdf" ); # http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/" ); # http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.8= script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a847c0c6" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746817" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069054.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?17609f03" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected asterisk package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:asterisk"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/10/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/11/14"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^15([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 15.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC15", reference:"asterisk-1.8.7.1-1.fc15")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "asterisk"); }
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201110-21.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201110-21 (Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : An unauthenticated remote attacker may execute code with the privileges of the Asterisk process or cause a Denial of Service. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 56625 published 2011-10-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56625 title GLSA-201110-21 : Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_A95092A6F8F111E0A7EA00215C6A37BB.NASL description Asterisk project reports : A remote authenticated user can cause a crash with a malformed request due to an uninitialized variable. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 56527 published 2011-10-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56527 title FreeBSD : asterisk -- remote crash vulnerability in SIP channel driver (a95092a6-f8f1-11e0-a7ea-00215c6a37bb) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2011-14480.NASL description The Asterisk Development Team has announced a security release for Asterisk= 1.8. The available security release is released as version 1.8.7.1. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases The release of Asterisk 1.8.7.1 resolves an issue with SIP URI parsing whic= h can lead to a remotely exploitable crash : Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-012) The issue and resolution is described in the AST-2011-012 security advisory. For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please read t= he security advisory AST-2011-012, which was released at the same time as this announcement. For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog : http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.8= .7.1 Security advisory AST-2011-012 is available at : http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-012.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----= Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 56787 published 2011-11-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56787 title Fedora 16 : asterisk-1.8.7.1-1.fc16 (2011-14480) NASL family Denial of Service NASL id ASTERISK_AST_2011_012.NASL description According to the version in its SIP banner, the version of Asterisk running on the remote host can be crashed remotely by an authenticated user when parsing an invalid SIP URI. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 56922 published 2011-11-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56922 title Asterisk SIP Channel Driver Uninitialized Variable Request Parsing DoS (AST-2011-012)
References
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2011-012.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46420
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8478
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520141/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50177
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026191
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70706
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2011-012.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70706
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026191
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50177
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520141/100/0/threaded
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8478
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46420