Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-9937 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Digium Asterisk

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(95926);
  script_version("1.8");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/13");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9937");
  script_bugtraq_id(94792);

  script_name(english:"Asterisk Opus Codec DoS (AST-2016-008)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the version in the SIP banner.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A telephony application running on the remote host is affected by a
denial of service vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its SIP banner, the version of Asterisk running on the
remote host is 13.12.x prior to 13.13.1 or 14.x prior to 14.2.1. It
is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the
Opus codec when handling SDP offer or answer requests due to improper
parsing of format parameters when they are separated by space
characters. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via
a specially crafted request, to cause the parser to recursively call
itself until it crashes.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied
only on the application's self-reported version number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-008.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Asterisk version 13.13.1 / 14.2.1 or later.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-9937");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/12/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/12/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/12/19");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"potential_vulnerability", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:digium:asterisk");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Misc.");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("asterisk_detection.nasl");
  script_require_keys("asterisk/sip_detected", "Settings/ParanoidReport");

  exit(0);
}

include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

get_kb_item_or_exit("asterisk/sip_detected");

asterisk_kbs = get_kb_list_or_exit("sip/asterisk/*/version");

if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

is_vuln = FALSE;
not_vuln_installs = make_list();
errors = make_list();

foreach kb_name (keys(asterisk_kbs))
{
  vulnerable = 0;

  matches = eregmatch(pattern:"/(udp|tcp)/([0-9]+)/version", string:kb_name);
  if (isnull(matches))
  {
    errors = make_list(errors, "Unexpected error parsing port number from '"+kb_name+"'.");
    continue;
  }

  proto = matches[1];
  port  = matches[2];
  version = asterisk_kbs[kb_name];

  if (version == 'unknown')
  {
    errors = make_list(errors, "Unable to obtain version of install on " + proto + "/" + port + ".");
    continue;
  }

  banner = get_kb_item("sip/asterisk/" + proto + "/" + port + "/source");
  if (!banner)
  {
    # We have version but banner is missing;
    # log error and use in version-check though.
    errors = make_list(errors, "KB item 'sip/asterisk/" + proto + "/" + port + "/source' is missing.");
    banner = 'unknown';
  }

  # Open Source 13.x < 13.13.1
  if (version =~ "^13\.1[23]([^0-9]|$)" && "cert" >!< tolower(version))
  {
    fixed = "13.13.1";
    vulnerable = ver_compare(ver:version, fix:fixed, app:"asterisk");
  }

  # Open Source 14.x < 14.2.1
  else if (version =~ "^14([^0-9])" && "cert" >!< tolower(version))
  {
    fixed = "14.2.1";
    vulnerable = ver_compare(ver:version, fix:fixed, app:"asterisk");
  }

  if (vulnerable < 0)
  {
    is_vuln = TRUE;
    report =
        '\n  Version source    : ' + banner +
        '\n  Installed version : ' + version +
        '\n  Fixed version     : ' + fixed +
        '\n';
      security_report_v4(severity:SECURITY_WARNING, port:port, proto:proto, extra:report);
  }
  else not_vuln_installs = make_list(not_vuln_installs, version + " on port " + proto + "/" + port);
}

if (max_index(errors))
{
  if (max_index(errors) == 1) errmsg = errors[0];
  else errmsg = 'Errors were encountered verifying installations : \n  ' + join(errors, sep:'\n  ');

  exit(1, errmsg);
}
else
{
  installs = max_index(not_vuln_installs);
  if (installs == 0)
  {
    if (is_vuln) exit(0);
    else audit(AUDIT_NOT_INST, "Asterisk");
  }
  else audit(AUDIT_INST_VER_NOT_VULN, "Asterisk", not_vuln_installs);
}