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Fedora 23: 2016-153eed2bb8 Critical: Asterisk DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 kernel patch introduces upstream 5.4.21 release to mitigate risks and enhance overall system security.
Update to upstream 13.7.1 release for security fixes

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 upstream 13.7.1 release for security fixes

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS threat mitigation Asterisk 13.7.1

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1304670 - CVE-2016-2316 asterisk: File descriptor exhaustion in chan_sip (AST-2016-002) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304670

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 23
Version: 13.7.1
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://www.asterisk.org/
Summary: The Open Source PBX

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS threat mitigation Asterisk 13.7.1

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