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High · 7.5 CVE-2023-49786 EUVD-2023-53705

Asterisk susceptible to Denial of Service via DTLS Hello packets during call initiation

Published Dec 14, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. In Asterisk prior to versions 18.20.1, 20.5.1, and 21.0.1; as well as certified-asterisk prior to 18.9-cert6; Asterisk is susceptible to a DoS due to a race condition in the hello handshake phase of the DTLS protocol when handling DTLS-SRTP for media setup. This attack can be done continuously, thus denying new DTLS-SRTP encrypted calls during the attack. Abuse of this vulnerability may lead to a massive Denial of Service on vulnerable Asterisk servers for calls that rely on DTLS-SRTP. Commit d7d7764cb07c8a1872804321302ef93bf62cba05 contains a fix, which is part of versions 18.20.1, 20.5.1, 21.0.1, amd 18.9-cert6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
asterisk asterisk < 18.20.1, >= 19.0.0, < 20.5.1, = 21.0.0, < 18.9-cert6 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 asterisk 1:20.5.1~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-1 —
Debian 11 asterisk 1:16.28.0~dfsg-0+deb11u4 DSA-5596-1
Debian 10 asterisk 1:16.28.0~dfsg-0+deb10u4 DLA-3696-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 asterisk 20.5.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 asterisk 20.5.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 asterisk 20.5.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 asterisk 20.5.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 asterisk 20.5.1-r0 —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 asterisk 20.5.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 asterisk 18.20.2-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 asterisk 18.20.2-r0 —
Alpine v3.16 asterisk 18.20.2-r0 —

Advisories 3

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