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Debian DSA-1952-1 Moderate: Remote Threats in Asterisk Software

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2009
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The latest Debian advisory DSA-1953-2 highlights various vulnerabilities in OpenSSL that impact the cryptographic library.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in asterisk, an Open Source PBX and telephony toolkit

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in asterisk, an Open Source
PBX and telephony toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-0041

It is possible to determine valid login names via probing, due to the
IAX2 response from asterisk (AST-2009-001).

CVE-2008-3903

It is possible to determine a valid SIP username, when Digest
authentication and authalwaysreject are enabled (AST-2009-003).

CVE-2009-3727

It is possible to determine a valid SIP username via multiple crafted
REGISTER messages (AST-2009-008).

CVE-2008-7220 CVE-2007-2383

It was discovered that asterisk contains an obsolete copy of the
Prototype JavaScript framework, which is vulnerable to several security
issues. This copy is unused and now removed from asterisk
(AST-2009-009).

CVE-2009-4055

It was discovered that it is possible to perform a denial of service
attack via RTP comfort noise payload with a long data length
(AST-2009-010).


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Package: asterisk
CVE ID: CVE-2009-0041 CVE-2008-3903 CVE-2009-3727 CVE-2008-7220 CVE-2009-4055 CVE-2007-2383

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