Debian DSA-2493-1 : asterisk - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59771

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Asterisk, a PBX and telephony toolkit.

- CVE-2012-2947 The IAX2 channel driver allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by placing a call on hold (when a certain mohinterpret setting is enabled).

- CVE-2012-2948 The Skinny channel driver allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by closing a connection in off-hook mode.

In addition, it was discovered that Asterisk does not set the alwaysauthreject option by default in the SIP channel driver. This allows remote attackers to observe a difference in response behavior and check for the presence of account names. (CVE-2011-2666 ) System administrators concerned by this user enumerating vulnerability should enable the alwaysauthreject option in the configuration. We do not plan to change the default setting in the stable version (Asterisk 1.6) in order to preserve backwards compatibility.

Solution

Upgrade the asterisk packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze6.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59771

File Name: debian_DSA-2493.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/29/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/12/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2947, CVE-2012-2948

BID: 53722, 53723

DSA: 2493

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