Re: [SR-Users] Asterisk Security Advisory (AST-2016-009)

Hey all - The Asterisk project just released a security advisory for a security vulnerability in which Asterisk using chan_sip with a proxy can allow for unauthenticated calls. This affects all supported versions of Asterisk (11, 13, 14). Since that may be relevant to those on this mailing list who are not also on the asterisk-users mailing list, I thought it prudent to mention it here as well. A description of the vulnerability follows: Description The chan_sip channel driver has a liberal definition for whitespace when attempting to strip the content between a SIP header name and a colon character. Rather than following RFC 3261 and stripping only spaces and horizontal tabs, Asterisk treats any non-printable ASCII character as if it were whitespace. This means that headers such as Contact\x01: will be seen as a valid Contact header. This mostly does not pose a problem until Asterisk is placed in tandem with an authenticating SIP proxy. In such a case, a crafty combination of valid and invalid To headers can cause a proxy to allow an INVITE request into Asterisk without authentication since it believes the request is an in-dialog request. However, because of the bug described above, the request will look like an out-of-dialog request to Asterisk. Asterisk will then process the request as a new call. The result is that Asterisk can process calls from unvetted sources without any authentication. If you do not use a proxy for authentication, then this issue does not affect you. If your proxy is dialog-aware (meaning that the proxy keeps track of what dialogs are currently valid), then this issue does not affect you. If you use chan_pjsip instead of chan_sip, then this issue does not affect you. The announcement can be seen here: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-announce/2016-December/000662.ht… Thanks again to Walter Doekes for reporting the vulnerability and providing the patch to fix it. Matt -- Matthew Jordan Digium, Inc. | CTO 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org _______________________________________________ SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users