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asterisk -- Buffer Overrun in PJSIP transaction layer

Affected packages
asterisk13 < 13.15.1
pjsip < 2.6_1
pjsip-extsrtp < 2.6_1

Details

VuXML ID 0537afa3-3ce0-11e7-bf9d-001999f8d30b
Discovery 2017-04-12
Entry 2017-05-19

The Asterisk project reports:

A remote crash can be triggered by sending a SIP packet to Asterisk with a specially crafted CSeq header and a Via header with no branch parameter. The issue is that the PJSIP RFC 2543 transaction key generation algorithm does not allocate a large enough buffer. By overrunning the buffer, the memory allocation table becomes corrupted, leading to an eventual crash.

The multi-part body parser in PJSIP contains a logical error that can make certain multi-part body parts attempt to read memory from outside the allowed boundaries. A specially-crafted packet can trigger these invalid reads and potentially induce a crash.

This issues is in PJSIP, and so the issue can be fixed without performing an upgrade of Asterisk at all. However, we are releasing a new version of Asterisk with the bundled PJProject updated to include the fix.

If you are running Asterisk with chan_sip, this issue does not affect you.

References

URL http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2017-002.html
URL http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2017-003.html