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Debian DLA-1225-1 : asterisk security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 105494

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Asterisk, an open source PBX and telephony toolkit, which may result in resource exhaustion and denial of service.

CVE-2017-17090: memory leak from chan_skinny. If the chan_skinny (AKA SCCP protocol) channel driver is flooded with certain requests it can cause the asterisk process to use excessive amounts of virtual memory eventually causing asterisk to stop processing requests of any kind.
The chan_skinny driver has been updated to release memory allocations in a correct manner thereby preventing any possiblity of exhaustion.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.8.13.1~dfsg1-3+deb7u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00028.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/asterisk

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105494

File Name: debian_DLA-1225.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-config, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-dahdi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-mobile, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-modules, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-mp3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-ooh323, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-voicemail, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-voicemail-imapstorage, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk-voicemail-odbcstorage, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17090