VOIP: Digium Asterisk SIP Invalid SDP Media Descriptions Denial of Service

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against Digium Asterisk. A successful attack can result in a denial-of-service condition.

Extended Description

The SIP channel driver (channels/chan_sip.c) in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.23.1, 10.x before 10.12.3, and 11.x before 11.5.1; Certified Asterisk 1.8.15 before 1.8.15-cert3 and 11.2 before 11.2-cert2; and Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x-digiumphones before 10.12.3-digiumphones allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, segmentation fault, and daemon crash) via an invalid SDP that defines a media description before the connection description in a SIP request.

Affected Products

Digium asterisk

References

BugTraq: 62022

CVE: CVE-2013-5642

Short Name
VOIP:SIP:ASTERISK-SDP-MEDIA-DOS
Severity
Minor
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
VOIP
Keywords
Asterisk CVE-2013-5642 Denial Descriptions Digium Invalid Media SDP SIP Service bid:62022 of
Release Date
10/24/2013
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3761
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Digium

CVSS Score

5.0

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