Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2018-009
Product Asterisk
Summary Remote crash vulnerability in HTTP websocket upgrade
Nature of Advisory Denial Of Service
Susceptibility Remote Unauthenticated Sessions
Severity Moderate
Exploits Known No
Reported On August 16, 2018
Reported By Sean Bright
Posted On
Last Updated On September 20, 2018
Advisory Contact Rmudgett AT digium DOT com
CVE Name CVE-2018-17281
Description 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
attackerâ??s request causes Asterisk to run out of stack
space and crash.
Resolution Disable HTTP websocket access by not loading the
res_http_websocket.so module or upgrade Asterisk to a fixed
version.
Affected Versions
Product Release
Series
Asterisk Open Source 13.x All releases
Asterisk Open Source 14.x All releases
Asterisk Open Source 15.x All releases
Certified Asterisk 13.21 All releases
Corrected In
Product Release
Asterisk Open Source 13.23.1, 14.7.8, 15.6.1
Certified Asterisk 13.21-cert3
Patches
SVN URL Revision
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-009-13.diff Asterisk
13
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-009-14.diff Asterisk
14
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-009-15.diff Asterisk
15
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-009-13.21.diff Certified
Asterisk
13.21
Links https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28013
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This document may be superseded by later versions; if so, the latest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-2018-009.pdf and
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2018-009.html
Revision History
Date Editor Revisions Made
August 31, 2018 Richard Mudgett Initial revision
September 20, 2018 Richard Mudgett Added CVE name.
Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2018-009
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