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Debian: DSA-2749-1 Critical: Asterisk Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2013
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Asterisk has received an urgent Debian security patch addressing severe vulnerabilities in its SIP handling capabilities, potentially resulting in service outages.
Colin Cuthbertson and Walter Doekes discovered two vulnerabilities in the SIP processing code of Asterisk - an open source PBX and telephony toolkit -, which could result in denial...
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Summary

Colin Cuthbertson and Walter Doekes discovered two vulnerabilities in
the SIP processing code of Asterisk - an open source PBX and telephony
toolkit -, which could result in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze11.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.13.1~dfsg-3+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: asterisk
CVE ID: CVE-2013-5641 CVE-2013-5642

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