Asterisk Project Security Advisory – AST-2020-001 ≈ Packet Storm
Product Asterisk
Summary Remote crash in res_pjsip_session
Nature of Advisory Denial of service
Susceptibility Remote authenticated sessions
Severity Moderate
Exploits Known No
Reported On August 31, 2020
Reported By Sandro Gauci
Posted On November 5, 2020
Last Updated On November 4, 2020
Advisory Contact kharwell AT sangoma DOT com
CVE Name
Description Upon receiving a new SIP Invite, Asterisk did not
return the created dialog locked or referenced. This
caused a “gap” between the creation of the dialog
object, and its next use by the thread that created
it. Depending upon some off nominal circumstances, and
timing it was possible for another thread to free said
dialog in this “gap”. Asterisk could then crash when
the dialog object, or any of its dependent objects
were de-referenced, or accessed next by the initial
creation thread.
Note, however that this crash can only occur when
using a connection oriented protocol (e.g. TCP, TLS)
for the SIP transport. If you are using UDP then your
system should not be affected.
As well, the remote client must be authenticated, or
Asterisk must be configured for anonymous calling in
order for this problem to manifest.
Modules Affected res_pjsip.c, res_pjsip_session.c, res_pjsip_pubsub.c
Resolution Asterisk now returns the newly created dialog object both
locked, and with its reference count increased. The lock,
and added reference are then held until such a time it is
safe to release both the lock, and decrement the reference
count.
Affected Versions
Product Release Series
Asterisk Open Source 13.x All releases
Asterisk Open Source 16.x All releases
Asterisk Open Source 17.x All releases
Asterisk Open Source 18.x All releases
Certified Asterisk 16.8 All releases
Corrected In
Product Release
Asterisk Open Source 13.37.1, 16.14.1, 17.8.1, 18.0.1
Certified Asterisk 16.8-cert5
Patches
SVN URL Revision
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2020-001-13.diff Asterisk
13
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2020-001-16.diff Asterisk
16
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2020-001-17.diff Asterisk
17
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2020-001-18.diff Asterisk
18
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2020-001-16.8.diff Certified
Asterisk
16.8-cert5
Links https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29057
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This document may be superseded by later versions; if so, the latest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-2020-001.pdf and
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2020-001.html
Revision History
Date Editor Revisions Made
November 5, 2020 Kevin Harwell Initial revision
Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2020-001
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