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Gentoo: GLSA-201406-25 Normal: Critical Asterisk Command Issue

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2014
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Uncover an alert regarding various vulnerabilities in Asterisk on Gentoo, which facilitate unauthorized command execution with elevated privileges.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, the worst of which could allow privileged users to execute arbitrary system shell commands

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo command execution Denial of Service Asterisk normal

Resolution

All Asterisk 11 users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-11.10.2"
All Asterisk 1.8 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-4046 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4046 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-4047 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4047

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201406-25
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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: Normal
Title: Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: June 25, 2014
Bugs: #513102
ID: 201406-25

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo command execution Denial of Service Asterisk normal

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, the worst of which could allow privileged users to execute arbitrary system shell commands.

Background

Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/asterisk < 11.10.2 *>= 1.8.28.2 >= 11.10.2

Impact

===== A remote attacker that gains access to a privileged Asterisk account can execute arbitrary system shell commands. Furthermore an unprivileged remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.