Fedora 15 : asterisk-1.8.3.3-1.fc15 (2011-5835)

high Nessus Plugin ID 53566

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The Asterisk Development Team has announced security releases for Asterisk branches 1.4, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, and 1.8. The available security releases are released as versions 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.17.3, and 1.8.3.3.

These releases are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases

The releases of Asterisk 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.17.3, and 1.8.3.3 resolve two issues :

- File Descriptor Resource Exhaustion (AST-2011-005)

- Asterisk Manager User Shell Access (AST-2011-006)

The issues and resolutions are described in the AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006 security advisories.

For more information about the details of these vulnerabilities, please read the security advisories AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006, 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/releases/ChangeLo g-1.4.40.1 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.6.1.25 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.6.2.17.3 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.8.3.3

Security advisory AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006 are available at :

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-005.pdf http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-006.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

Severity: High

ID: 53566

File Name: fedora_2011-5835.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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: 4/23/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1507, CVE-2011-1599

BID: 47537

FEDORA: 2011-5835

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