[UNIX] IMAP Storage Buffer Overflows in Asterisk's Voicemail

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IMAP Storage Buffer Overflows in Asterisk's Voicemail
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SUMMARY

The function "sprintf" was used heavily throughout the Asterisk
IMAP-specific voicemail code. After auditing the code, two vulnerabilities
were discovered, both buffer overflows.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* Asterisk Open Source version 1.4.12 and prior

Immune Systems:
* Asterisk Open Source version 1.4.13

The following buffer overflow required write access to Asterisk's
configuration files in order to be exploited.

1) If a combination of the astspooldir (set in asterisk.conf), the
voicemail context, and voicemail mailbox, were very long, then there was a
buffer overflow when playing a message or forwarding a message (in the
case of forwarding, the context and mailbox in question are the context
and mailbox that the message was being forwarded to).

The following buffer overflow could be exploited remotely.

2) If any one of, or any combination of the Content-type or
Content-description headers for an e-mail that Asterisk recognized as a
voicemail message contained more than a 1024 characters, then a buffer
would overflow while listening to a voicemail message via a telephone. It
is important to note that this did NOT affect users who get their
voicemail via an e-mail client.

Resolution:
"sprintf" calls have been changed to "snprintf" wherever space was not
specifically allocated to the buffer prior to the sprintf call. This
includes places which are not currently prone to buffer overflows.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:asteriskteam@digium.com> The
Asterisk Development Team.
The original article can be found at:
<http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2007-022.html>

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2007-022.html

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