DSA-1563-1 asterisk -- programming error

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2008-1897  

Joel R. Voss discovered that the IAX2 module of Asterisk, a free software PBX and telephony toolkit performs insufficient validation of IAX2 protocol messages, which may lead to denial of service. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.19.1~dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1563-1 asterisk -- programming error

Date Reported:
30 Apr 2008
Affected Packages:
asterisk
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1897.
More information:

Joel R. Voss discovered that the IAX2 module of Asterisk, a free software PBX and telephony toolkit performs insufficient validation of IAX2 protocol messages, which may lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.19.1~dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk_1.2.13~dfsg.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-doc_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-web-vmail_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-config_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-sounds-main_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-dev_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-classic_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-bristuff_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/asterisk/asterisk-h423_1.2.13~dfsg-2etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.