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Fedora 11: Critical Asterisk Code Fix for AST-2009-009 Released

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2009
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Urgent security patch for Fedora 11 addressing major concerns, specifically remote code execution flaws that could compromise system integrity.
* Wed Nov 4 2009 Jeffrey C

Summary

Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides

all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk

does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with

almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively

inexpensive hardware.

Update Information:

* Wed Nov 4 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.9-1 - Update to 1.6.1.9 to fix AST-2009-009/CVE-2008-7220 and AST-2009-008 - Fix obsoletes for firmware subpackage

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora remote code execution update information critical fix asterisk

Change Log

* Wed Nov 4 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.9-1 - Update to 1.6.1.9 to fix AST-2009-009/CVE-2008-7220 and AST-2009-008 - Fix obsoletes for firmware subpackage * Tue Oct 27 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.8-1 - Update to 1.6.1.8 to fix bug 531199: - - http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2009-007.html - - A missing ACL check for handling SIP INVITEs allows a device to make - calls on networks intended to be prohibited as defined by the "deny" - and "permit" lines in sip.conf. The ACL check for handling SIP - registrations was not affected. * Sat Oct 24 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.7-0.4.rc2 - Add an AST_EXTRA_ARGS option to the init script - have the init script to cd to /var/spool/asterisk to prevent annoying message * Sat Oct 24 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.7-0.3.rc2 - Compile against gmime 2.2 instead of gmime 2.4 because the patch to convert the API calls from 2.2 to 2.4 caused crashes. * Fri Oct 9 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.7-0.2.rc2 - Require latex2html used in static-http documents * Thu Oct 8 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.7-0.1.rc2 - Update to 1.6.1.7-rc2 - Merge firmware subpackage back into main package - No longer need to strip tarball since it no longer contains any non-free items - Tighten up permissions/ownership of config files. - Fix up some more paths - Drop unneeded patch * Wed Sep 9 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.6-2 - Enable building of API docs. - Depend on version 1.2 or newer of speex * Sun Sep 6 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1.6-1 - Update to 1.6.1.6 - Drop patches that are too troublesome to maintain anymore or have been integrated upstream. * Tue Sep 1 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie - 1.6.1-0.26.rc1 - Add a patch from Quentin Armitage and rebuld. * Fri Aug 21 2009 Tomas Mraz - 1.6.1-0.25.rc1 - rebuilt with new openssl * Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.1-0.24.rc1 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #523277 - CVE-2008-7220 WordPress, MediaTomb, python-webhelpers, Asterisk, Plone -- embedded Prototype JavaScript FrameWork: XSS Ajax requests (AST-2009-009) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523277 [ 2 ] Bug #533137 - Asterisk: SIP responses expose valid usernames (AST-2009-008) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533137

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update asterisk' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: asterisk
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.6.1.9
Release: 1.fc11
URL: https://www.asterisk.org/
Summary: The Open Source PBX

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