Bug 765776 (AST-2011-014, CVE-2011-4598) - CVE-2011-4598 asterisk: NULL pointer dereference (crash) when processing INFO automon message with no channel (AST-2011-014)
Summary: CVE-2011-4598 asterisk: NULL pointer dereference (crash) when processing INFO...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: AST-2011-014, CVE-2011-4598
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 765778 765779
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-09 11:53 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-11 03:12:32 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-09 11:53:33 UTC 
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way Asterisk handled INFO requests, when the 'automon' feature was enabled. If no channel had been created yet, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service (asterisk crash) by sending an INFO request.

References:
[1] http://www.asterisk.org/node/51693
[2] http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-014.pdf
[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394095

Upstream patch (for 1.8 branch):
[5] http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=347533
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-09 12:01:53 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the asterisk package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 and 16. Please schedule an update.

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This issue affects the version of the asterisk package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 6. Please schedule an update.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-09 12:02:50 UTC 
CVE Request:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/09/3
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-09 12:04:47 UTC 
Created asterisk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 765778]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 765779]
Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2011-12-09 18:05:59 UTC 
This was assigned the name CVE-2011-4598.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-03-31 03:10:07 UTC 
asterisk-1.8.10.1-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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