Fedora 16 : asterisk-1.8.7.1-1.fc16 (2011-14480)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56787

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The Asterisk Development Team has announced a security release for Asterisk= 1.8. The available security release is released as version 1.8.7.1.

This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases

The release of Asterisk 1.8.7.1 resolves an issue with SIP URI parsing whic= h can lead to a remotely exploitable crash :

Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-012)

The issue and resolution is described in the AST-2011-012 security advisory.

For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please read t= he security advisory AST-2011-012, which was released at the same time as this announcement.

For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog :

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.8= .7.1

Security advisory AST-2011-012 is available at :

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-012.pdf

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Solution

Update the affected asterisk package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56787

File Name: fedora_2011-14480.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/14/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:asterisk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4063

BID: 50177

FEDORA: 2011-14480

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