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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.141496
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Asterisk DoS Vulnerability (AST-2018-009)
Summary:Asterisk is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Asterisk is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
There is a stack overflow vulnerability in the
res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk that allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially
crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a websocket. The attacker's request causes
Asterisk to run out of stack space and crash.

Affected Software/OS:
Asterisk Open Source versions 13.x, 14.x, 15.x and Certified
Asterisk version 13.21.

Solution:
Update to version 13.23.1, 14.7.8, 15.6.1, 13.21-cert3 or
later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-17281
BugTraq ID: 105389
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105389
Bugtraq: 20180920 AST-2018-009: Remote crash vulnerability in HTTP websocket upgrade (Google Search)
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Sep/53
Debian Security Information: DSA-4320 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4320
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Sep/31
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-11
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149453/Asterisk-Project-Security-Advisory-AST-2018-009.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00034.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041694
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG

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