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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5932-1 Moderate: Sofia-SIP Denial Of Service Threats

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2023
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Security flaws in Sofia-SIP resolved in Ubuntu 22.10 and 22.04 LTS, mitigating potential denial of service and remote exploitation threats.
Several security issues were fixed in Sofia-SIP.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Sofia-SIP.

Software Description:

- sofia-sip: Sofia-SIP library development files

Details:

It was discovered that Sofia-SIP incorrectly handled specially

crafted SDP packets. A remote attacker could use this issue

to cause applications using Sofia-SIP to crash, leading to

a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

(CVE-2022-31001, CVE-2022-31002, CVE-2022-31003)

It was discovered that Sofia-SIP incorrectly handled specially

crafted UDP packets. A remote attacker could use this issue

to cause applications using Sofia-SIP to crash, leading to

a denial of service. (CVE-2022-47516)

Qiuhao Li discovered that Sofia-SIP incorrectly handled specially

crafted STUN packets. A remote attacker could use this issue

to cause applications using Sofia-SIP to crash, leading to

a denial of service, or possibly execute arb...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.10:
   libsofia-sip-ua-glib3 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-3ubuntu0.1
   libsofia-sip-ua0 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-3ubuntu0.1
   sofia-sip-bin 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   libsofia-sip-ua-glib3 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.22.04.1
   libsofia-sip-ua0 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.22.04.1
   sofia-sip-bin 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   libsofia-sip-ua-glib3 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.20.04.1
   libsofia-sip-ua0 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.20.04.1
   sofia-sip-bin 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
   libsofia-sip-ua-glib3 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3build0.18.04.1
   libsofia-sip-ua0 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3build0.18.04.1
   sofia-sip-bin 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3build0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   libsofia-sip-ua-glib3 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
   libsofia-sip-ua0 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
   sofia-sip-bin 1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5932-1

  CVE-2022-31001, CVE-2022-31002, CVE-2022-31003, CVE-2022-47516,

  CVE-2023-22741

March 07, 2023

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