CVE-2018-17281

Summary

CVECVE-2018-17281
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-09-24 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThere is a stack consumption vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk through 13.23.0, 14.7.x through 14.7.7, and 15.x through 15.6.0 and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-cert2. It allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a websocket.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Digium Asterisk All All All All
Application Digium Asterisk All All All All
Application Digium Asterisk All All All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert12 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert13 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert14 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert15 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert16 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert17 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert18 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert5 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert6 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert7 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert8 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert5 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert6 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert7 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert8 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert9 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.21 cert1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.21 cert2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.8 cert1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.8 cert2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.8 cert3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.8 cert4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert12 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert13 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert14 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert15 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert16 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert17 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 11.6 cert18 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert5 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert6 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert7 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.1 cert8 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert4 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert5 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert6 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert7 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert8 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.13 cert9 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.21 cert1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.21 cert2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.8 cert1 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.8 cert2 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.8 cert3 All All
Application Digium Certified Asterisk 13.8 cert4 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Asterisk Stack Overflow in HTTP Websocket Upgrade Lets Remote Users Cause the Target Service to Crash - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Multiple Asterisk Products CVE-2018-17281 Remote Stack Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4320-1 asterisk DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: AST-2018-009: Remote crash vulnerability in HTTP websocket upgrade FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2018-009 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[ASTERISK-28013] res_http_websocket: Crash when reading HTTP Upgrade requests - Digium/Asterisk JIRA CONFIRM issues.asterisk.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1523-1] asterisk security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
AST-2018-009 CONFIRM downloads.asterisk.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Bugtraq: AST-2018-009: Remote crash vulnerability in HTTP websocket upgrade BUGTRAQ seclists.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201811-11) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690609 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for asterisk (77f67b46-bd75-11e8-81b6-001999f8d30b)
  • 710292 Gentoo Linux Asterisk Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201811-11)
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