Debian DSA-1048-1 : asterisk - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22590

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several problems have been discovered in Asterisk, an Open Source Private Branch Exchange (telephone control center). The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2005-3559 Adam Pointon discovered that due to missing input sanitising it is possible to retrieve recorded phone messages for a different extension.

- CVE-2006-1827 Emmanouel Kellinis discovered an integer signedness error that could trigger a buffer overflow and hence allow the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the asterisk package.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.11-3woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.7.dfsg.1-2sarge2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22590

File Name: debian_DSA-1048.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3559, CVE-2006-1827

BID: 15336

DSA: 1048

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