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Gentoo: GLSA-201110-21 High Severity: Multiple Asterisk Issues

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2011
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical flaws exist in Asterisk, enabling unapproved access and potential execution of harmful code. Update immediately to mitigate threats.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Asterisk might allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity remote code execution multiple issues Asterisk unauthenticated access

Resolution

All asterisk 1.6.x users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-1.6.2.18.2"
All asterisk 1.8.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-1.8.7.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-1147 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1147 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-1174 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1174 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-1175 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1175 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-1507 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1507 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-1599 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1599 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-2529 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2529 [ 7 ] CVE-2011-2535 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2535 [ 8 ] CVE-2011-2536 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2536 [ 9 ] CVE-2011-2665 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2665 [ 10 ] CVE-2011-2666 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2666 [ 11 ] CVE-2011-4063 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4063

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201110-21
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: October 24, 2011
Bugs: #352059, #355967, #359767, #364887, #372793, #373409, #387453
ID: 201110-21

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity remote code execution multiple issues Asterisk unauthenticated access

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in Asterisk might allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/asterisk < 1.8.7.1 >= 1.8.7.1 *>= 1.6.2.18.2

Impact

===== An unauthenticated remote attacker may execute code with the privileges of the Asterisk process or cause a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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