Input validation error in Asterisk Open Source - CVE-2014-2286
Published: April 19, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32568
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2286
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Digium (Linux Support Services)
Affected software:
Asterisk Open Source
Asterisk Open Source
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
main/http.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.26.1, 11.8.x before 11.8.1, and 12.1.x before 12.1.1, and Certified Asterisk 1.8.x before 1.8.15-cert5 and 11.6 before 11.6-cert2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a large number of Cookie headers.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-2286
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2014-001.html
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2014-001-1.8.diff
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-March/130400.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-March/130426.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:078
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66093
- https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-23340