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Fedora 9 : asterisk-1.6.0-0.19.beta9.fc9 (2008-6853)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33768

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fixes for 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 Bugfixes: - Add patch SVN patch for asterisk crash when used with LDAP backend (#442011)

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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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442011

http://www.nessus.org/u?43fe37e3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33768

File Name: fedora_2008-6853.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:asterisk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2008

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2008-6853