National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2216
Original release date:06/06/2011
Last revised:09/07/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
reqresp_parser.c in the SIP channel driver in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.4.2 does not initialize certain strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed Contact header.
Description
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html
'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
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: XF
Name: asterisk-parseurifull-dos(67812)
External Source: BID
Name: 48096
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20110602 AST-2011-007
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1025598
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 44828
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 72752
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2011-8319
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2011-8983
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2011-007.html
Type: Advisory