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Gentoo: GLSA-202301-12 Critical: Asterisk SIP Channel Exploit Alert

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A critical vulnerability in Asterisk affects Gentoo Linux deployments, allowing unauthorized access. Update to the latest versions to mitigate risk.
Asterisk contains a bug in the IAX2 channel driver making it vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Asterisk: IAX2 video frame buffer overflow Date: June 14, 2006 Bugs: #135680 ID: 200606-15

Synopsis ======= Asterisk contains a bug in the IAX2 channel driver making it vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Asterisk is an open source implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/asterisk < 1.0.11_p1 >= 1.0.11_p1
========== Asterisk fails to properly check the length of truncated video frames in the IAX2 channel driver which results in a buffer overflow.
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