National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4103
Original release date:07/31/2007
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) in Asterisk Open 1.2.x before 1.2.23, 1.4.x before 1.4.9, and Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit before 0.6.0, when configured to allow unauthenticated calls, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of calls that do not complete a 3-way handshake, which causes an ast_channel to be allocated but not released.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26274
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asa/ASA-2007-018.pdf
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-2701
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018472
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070729 ASA-2007-018: Resource exhaustion vulnerability in IAX2 channel driver
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 38197
External Source: BID
Name: 24950
External Source: SREASON
Name: 2960
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200802-11
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29051
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185713