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Debian Asterisk DSA-5596-1 critical: DoS and memory corruption attacks

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Calendar Grey January 4, 2024
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Numerous vulnerabilities in Asterisk require immediate updates for Debian users to preserve system stability and security.
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, an Open Source Private Branch Exchange

Summary

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, an Open
Source Private Branch Exchange.

CVE-2023-37457

The 'update' functionality of the PJSIP_HEADER dialplan function can exceed
the available buffer space for storing the new value of a header. By doing
so this can overwrite memory or cause a crash. This is not externally
exploitable, unless dialplan is explicitly written to update a header based
on data from an outside source. If the 'update' functionality is not used
the vulnerability does not occur.

CVE-2023-38703

PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in
C with high level API in C, C++, Java, C#, and Python languages. SRTP is a
higher level media transport which is stacked upon a lower level media
transport such as UDP and ICE. Currently a higher level transport is not
synchronized with its lower level transport that may introduce a
use-after-free issue. This vulnerability affects applications...

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Package: asterisk
CVE ID: CVE-2023-37457 CVE-2023-38703 CVE-2023-49294 CVE-2023-49786

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