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Fedora 11 Asterisk 1.6.1.6 Critical Update: Remote DoS Threats Resolved

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch for Fedora 11 rectifying several issues in asterisk 1.6.1.6. Effectively countering remote DoS vulnerabilities.
Update to 1.6.1.6 to fix many bugs...

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:

Update to 1.6.1.6 to fix many bugs...

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora remote DoS asterisk

Change Log

* 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.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #514953 - CVE-2009-2651 asterisk: remote DoS on receipt of malformed RTP text frames https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514953 [ 2 ] Bug #521164 - CVE-2009-2346 asterisk: IAX2 DoS vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521164

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: 1.6.1.6
Release: 1.fc11
URL: https://www.asterisk.org/
Summary: The Open Source PBX

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