Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2008-006 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Product | Asterisk | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Summary | 3-way handshake in IAX2 incomplete | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Nature of Advisory | Remote amplification attack | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Susceptibility | Remote unauthenticated sessions | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Severity | Critical | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Exploits Known | Yes | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Reported On | April 18, 2008 | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Reported By | Joel R. Voss aka. Javantea < jvoss AT altsci DOT | | | com > | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Posted On | April 22, 2008 | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Last Updated On | April 22, 2008 | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Advisory Contact | Tilghman Lesher < tlesher AT digium DOT com > | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | CVE Name | CVE-2008-1897 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Description | Javantea originally reported an issue in IAX2, whereby | | | an attacker could send a spoofed IAX2 NEW message, and | | | Asterisk would start sending early audio to the target | | | address, without ever receiving an initial response. | | | That original vulnerability was addressed in June 2007, | | | by requiring a response to the initial NEW message | | | before starting to send any audio. | | | | | | Javantea subsequently found that we were doing | | | insufficent verification of the ACK response and that | | | the ACK response could be spoofed, just like the initial | | | NEW message. We have addressed this failure with two | | | changes. First, we have started to require that the ACK | | | response contains the unique source call number that we | | | send in our reply to the NEW message. Any ACK response | | | that does not contain the source call number that we | | | have created will be silently thrown away. Second, we | | | have made the generation of our source call number a | | | little more difficult to predict, by randomly selecting | | | a source call number, instead of allocating them | | | sequentially. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Workaround | Disable remote unauthenticated IAX2 sessions, by | | | disallowing guest access. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Resolution | Upgrade your Asterisk installation to revision 114561 or | | | later, or install one of the releases shown below. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Commentary | We would like to thank Javantea for notifying us of this | | | problem; however, we note that he posted exploit code | | | prior to that notification, which is considered | | | irresponsible behavior in the whitehat security industry. | | | In the future, advance notice of any such release would | | | be appreciated. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Affected Versions | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Product | Release | | | | Series | | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | Asterisk Open Source | 1.0.x | All versions | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | Asterisk Open Source | 1.2.x | All versions prior to | | | | 1.2.28 | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | Asterisk Open Source | 1.4.x | All versions prior to | | | | 1.4.20 | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | Asterisk Business Edition | A.x.x | All versions | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | Asterisk Business Edition | B.x.x | All versions prior to | | | | B.2.5.2 | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | Asterisk Business Edition | C.x.x | All versions prior to | | | | C.1.8.1 | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | AsteriskNOW | 1.0.x | All versions prior to | | | | 1.0.3 | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | Asterisk Appliance Developer | 0.x.x | All versions | | Kit | | | |-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------| | s800i (Asterisk Appliance) | 1.0.x | All versions prior to | | | | 1.1.0.3 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Corrected In | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Product | Release | |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------| | Asterisk Open Source | 1.2.28 | |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------| | Asterisk Open Source | 1.4.20 | |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------| | Asterisk Business Edition | B.2.5.2 | |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------| | Asterisk Business Edition | C.1.8.1 | |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------| | AsteriskNOW | 1.0.3 | |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------| | s800i (Asterisk Appliance) | 1.1.0.3 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Links | https://www.altsci.com/concepts/page.php?s=asteri&p=2 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Asterisk Project Security Advisories are posted at | | http://www.asterisk.org/security | | | | This document may be superseded by later versions; if so, the latest | | version will be posted at | | http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-006.pdf and | | http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-006.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Revision History | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Date | Editor | Revisions Made | |---------------------+----------------------+---------------------------| | April 22, 2008 | Tilghman Lesher | Initial release | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2008-006 Copyright (c) 2008 Digium, Inc. 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