UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9938

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9938
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9938.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9938
Upstream
Published
2016-12-12T21:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:43:57Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 11.x before 11.25.1, 13.x before 13.13.1, and 14.x before 14.2.1 and Certified Asterisk 11.x before 11.6-cert16 and 13.x before 13.8-cert4. The chansip 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 chanpjsip instead of chan_sip, then this issue does not affect you.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / asterisk

Package

Name
asterisk
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/asterisk@1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:13.*

1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu3
1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4
1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1
1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-config",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-dahdi",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-mobile",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-modules",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-mp3",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-mysql",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-ooh323",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-voicemail",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-voicemail-imapstorage",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-voicemail-odbcstorage",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "asterisk-vpb",
            "binary_version": "1:13.1.0~dfsg-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9938.json"