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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69105
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2171-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'asterisk' package(s) announced via the DSA-2171-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'asterisk' package(s) announced via the DSA-2171-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Matthew Nicholson discovered a buffer overflow in the SIP channel driver of Asterisk, an open source PBX and telephony toolkit, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.21.2~
dfsg-3+lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2.9-2+squeeze1.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'asterisk' package(s) on Debian 5, Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-0495
BugTraq ID: 45839
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45839
Bugtraq: 20110118 AST-2011-001: Stack buffer overflow in SIP channel driver (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515781/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-2171 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2171
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053689.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053713.html
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-001-1.6.2.diff
http://osvdb.org/70518
http://secunia.com/advisories/42935
http://secunia.com/advisories/43119
http://secunia.com/advisories/43373
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0159
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0281
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0449
XForce ISS Database: asterisk-asturiencode-bo(64831)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64831
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG

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