| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to asterisk
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-2620.
Update Information:
Update to 1.4.18.1 plus another patch to fix some security issues.
AST-2008-002 details two buffer overflows that were discovered in RTP codec
payload type handling. *
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-002.pdf * All users of SIP in
Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 are affected. AST-2008-003 details a vulnerability which
allows an attacker to bypass SIP authentication and to make a call into the
context specified in the general section of sip.conf. *
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-003.pdf * All users of SIP in
Asterisk 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, or 1.6 are affected. AST-2008-005 details a problem
in the way manager IDs are caculated. *
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-005.pdf
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #438127 - CVE-2008-1289 asterisk: Two buffer overflows in RTP Codec Payload Handling (AST-2008-002)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438127
[ 2 ] Bug #438129 - CVE-2008-1332 asterisk: Unauthenticated calls allowed from SIP channel driver (AST-2008-003)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438129
[ 3 ] Bug #438131 - CVE-2008-1390 asterisk: HTTP Manager ID is predictable (AST-2008-005)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438131
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-2620
Risk factor : Critical
CVSS Score:
9.3
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