Fedora 8 : asterisk-1.4.21.2-1.fc8 (2008-6676)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33569

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.4.21.2 to fix CVE-2008-3263 / AST-2008-010 and CVE-2008-3264 / AST-2008-011. AST-2008-010: Asterisk IAX 'POKE' resource exhaustion - http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-010.html AST-2008-011: Traffic amplification in IAX2 firmware provisioning system - http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-011.html

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-2008-010.html

https://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-011.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?36e87fce

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33569

File Name: fedora_2008-6676.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/24/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3263, CVE-2008-3264

CWE: 287, 399

FEDORA: 2008-6676