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Fedora 8 : asterisk-1.4.18.1-1.fc8 (2008-2554)
high Nessus Plugin ID 31664
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
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 calculated. * http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-005.pdf
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected asterisk package.See Also
https://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-002.pdf
https://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-003.pdf
https://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-005.pdf
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438127
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438129
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 31664
File Name: fedora_2008-2554.nasl
Version: 1.19
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/26/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.1
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 7.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:asterisk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2008