Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
The Asterisk Development Team has announced security releases for Asterisk branches 1.6.1, 1.6.2, and 1.8. The available security releases are released as versions 1.6.1.24, 1.6.2.17.2, and 1.8.3.2.
These releases are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases ** This is a re-release of Asterisk 1.6.1.23, 1.6.2.17.1 and 1.8.3.1 which contained a bug which caused duplicate manager entries (issue #18987).
The releases of Asterisk 1.6.1.24, 1.6.2.17.2, and 1.8.3.2 resolve two issues :
- Resource exhaustion in Asterisk Manager Interface (AST-2011-003)
- Remote crash vulnerability in TCP/TLS server (AST-2011-004) The issues and resolutions are described in the AST-2011-003 and AST-2011-004 security advisories. For more information about the details of these vulnerabilities, please read the security advisories AST-2011-003 and AST-2011-004, which were released at the same time as this announcement. For a full list of changes in the current releases, please see the ChangeLog:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/r eleases/ChangeLog-1.6.1.24 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/r eleases/ChangeLog-1.6.2.17.2 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/r eleases/ChangeLog-1.8.3.2 Security advisory AST-2011-003 and AST-2011-004 are available at:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-00 3.pdf http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-00 4.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.
Plugin Details
File Name: fedora_2011-3958.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:asterisk
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2011