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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201406-25
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities
     Date: June 25, 2014
     Bugs: #513102
       ID: 201406-25

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

Background
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Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.

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

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

Impact
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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
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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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
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[ 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
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201406-25

Concerns?
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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.

License
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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/