Bug 928774 (CVE-2013-2686) - CVE-2013-2686 asterisk: DoS in the HTTP server (AST-2013-002)
Summary: CVE-2013-2686 asterisk: DoS in the HTTP server (AST-2013-002)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-2686
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: 928552 928779 928780
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-28 12:18 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-04-10 22:38:43 UTC

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-28 12:18:26 UTC 
A denial of service flaw was found in the way Asterisk, an open-source telephony toolkit, performed processing of certain HTTP POST requests with very large Content-Length values. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause asterisk telephony server to crash (denial of service).

Upstream advisory:
[1] http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2013-002.html

Relevant upstream patches:
[2] http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2013-002-1.8.diff
[3] http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2013-002-10.diff
[4] http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2013-002-11.diff
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-28 12:33:17 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the asterisk package, as shipped with Fedora release of 18, 17, and Fedora EPEL-6. Please schedule an update.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-28 12:36:10 UTC 
Created asterisk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 928552]
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-28 12:37:43 UTC 
Created asterisk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 928779]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 928780]
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-04-07 00:44:30 UTC 
asterisk-10.12.2-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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