Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2011-014 Product Asterisk Summary Remote crash possibility with SIP and the "automon" feature enabled Nature of Advisory Remote crash vulnerability in a feature that is disabled by default Susceptibility Remote unauthenticated sessions Severity Moderate Exploits Known Yes Reported On November 2, 2011 Reported By Kristijan Vrban Posted On 2011-11-03 Last Updated On December 7, 2011 Advisory Contact Terry Wilson <twilson at digium.com> CVE Name Description When the "automon" feature is enabled in features.conf, it is possible to send a sequence of SIP requests that cause Asterisk to dereference a NULL pointer and crash. Resolution Applying the referenced patches that check that the pointer is not NULL before accessing it will resolve the issue. The "automon" feature can be disabled in features.conf as a workaround. Affected Versions Product Release Series Asterisk Open Source 1.6.2.x All versions Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x All versions Corrected In Product Release Asterisk Open Source 1.6.2.21, 1.8.7.2 Patches Download URL Revision http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-014-1.6.2.diff 1.6.2.20 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-014-1.8.diff 1.8.7.1 Links Asterisk Project Security Advisories are posted at http://www.asterisk.org/security This document may be superseded by later versions; if so, the latest version will be posted at http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2011-014.pdf and http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2011-014.html Revision History Date Editor Revisions Made Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2011-014 Copyright (c) 2011 Digium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Permission is hereby granted to distribute and publish this advisory in its original, unaltered form.
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