From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2008 - 20:17:04 CST

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TITLE:
Asterisk "BYE/Also" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28312

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28312/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Asterisk 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/2155/
Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/14821/
Asterisk Business Edition 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/14820/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Asterisk, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a null-pointer dereference error
within the handling of the "BYE/Also" transfer method and can be
exploited to crash the application.

Successful exploitation requires that a dialog has already been
established.

The vulnerability is reported in the following versions:
* Asterisk Open Source 1.4.x prior to version 1.4.17
* Asterisk Business Edition C.x.x prior to version C.1.0-beta8
* AsteriskNOW pre-release prior to beta7
* Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit prior to Asterisk 1.4 revision
95946
* s800i (Asterisk Appliance) 1.0.x prior to version 1.0.3.4

SOLUTION:
Asterisk Open Source:
Update to version 1.4.17:
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk

Asterisk Business Edition:
Fixed in version C.1.0

AsteriskNOW:
Fixed in Beta7
http://www.asterisknow.org/.

Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit:
Update to Asterisk 1.4 revision 95946.

s800i (Asterisk Appliance):
Update to version 1.0.3.4.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Grey VoIP.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-001.html

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