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AST-2011-003:

From: Asterisk Security Team (securityasterisk.org)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2011 - 17:50:32 CDT


   Product Asterisk
   Summary Resource exhaustion in Asterisk Manager Interface
   Nature of Advisory Denial of Service
   Susceptibility Remote Unauthenticated Sessions if manager interface is
                      accessible
   Severity Moderate
   Exploits Known No
   Reported On March 1, 2011
   Reported By Blake Cornell <blakeremoteorigin.com>
   Posted On March 16, 2011
   Last Updated On March 14, 2011
   Advisory Contact Terry Wilson <twilsondigium.com>

    

               Rapidly opening manager connections, sending invalid data, and
   Description closing the connection can cause Asterisk to exhaust available
               CPU and memory resources. The manager interface is disabled by
               default.

    

   Resolution Failed writes to manager clients are flagged and the connection
              closed.

    

   Affected Versions
   Product Release Series
   Asterisk Open Source 1.6.1.x All versions
   Asterisk Open Source 1.6.2.x All versions
   Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x All versions

    

   Corrected In
   Product Release
   Asterisk Open Source 1.6.1.23, 1.6.2.17.1, 1.8.3.1
                                                                              
                                                                              

   Patches
   URL Branch
   http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-003-1.6.1.diff 1.6.1
   http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-003-1.6.2.diff 1.6.2
   http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-003-1.8.diff 1.8

    

    

   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   This document may be superseded by later versions; if so, the latest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-2011-003.pdf and
   http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2011-003.html

    

   Revision History
   Date Editor Revisions Made
   2011-03-14 Terry Wilson Initial release