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Title: Asterisk ManagerInterface Manager.Conf Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

Asterisk is a private branch exchange (PBX) application available for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X platforms.

Asterisk is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to handle exceptional conditions. Specifically, if a manager user is configured in 'manager.conf' without a password, a connection will be established with the username and the blank password, resulting in a NULL-pointer dereference.

Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to cause the application to crash, effectively denying service to legitimate users.

Affected Products:

  • Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.7
  • Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.8
  • Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.9
  • Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.9 -1
  • Asterisk Asterisk 0.2.0
  • Asterisk Asterisk 0.3.0
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.0
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.10
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.11
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.12
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.6
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.7
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.8
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.9
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.0 .0-beta1
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.0 .0-beta2
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.10
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.11
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.11
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.13
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.14
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.15
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.16
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.17
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.5
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.6
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.7
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.8
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.2.9
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.4 Beta
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.4.1
  • Asterisk Asterisk 1.4.2
  • Asterisk Asterisk Business Edition A
  • Asterisk Asterisk Business Edition B.1.3.2
  • Asterisk Asterisk Business Edition B.1.3.3
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 alpha
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 amd64
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 arm
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 hppa
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-32
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-64
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 m68k
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 mips
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 mipsel
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 ppc
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 s/390
  • Debian Linux 3.1.0 sparc
  • Debian Linux 4.0
  • Debian Linux 4.0 alpha
  • Debian Linux 4.0 amd64
  • Debian Linux 4.0 arm
  • Debian Linux 4.0 hppa
  • Debian Linux 4.0 ia-32
  • Debian Linux 4.0 ia-64
  • Debian Linux 4.0 m68k
  • Debian Linux 4.0 mips
  • Debian Linux 4.0 mipsel
  • Debian Linux 4.0 powerpc
  • Debian Linux 4.0 s/390
  • Debian Linux 4.0 sparc
  • SuSE Linux 10.1
  • SuSE openSUSE 10.2

References:

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