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Posted on 16 June 2012
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TITLE:
Asterisk Skinny Channel Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49543
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-06-15
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Asterisk, which can be exploited
by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error
in SCCP (Skinny) channel driver (channels/chan_skinny.c) when
handling termination of a client's connection and can be exploited to
cause a crash by closing a connection to the server in "Off Hook"
state.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 10.5.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 10.5.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Christoph Hebeisen, TELUS Security Labs.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-009.html
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