Fedora 16 : asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc16 (2012-8692)

low Nessus Plugin ID 59533

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.12.2. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 1.8.12.2 resolves an issue reported by the community and would have not been possible without your participation.
Thank you!

The following is the issue resolved in this release :

- --- Resolve crash in subscribing for MWI notifications (Closes issue ASTERISK-19827. Reported by B. R)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.12.
2

The Asterisk Development Team has announced security releases for Certified Asterisk 1.8.11 and Asterisk 1.8 and 10. The available security releases are released as versions 1.8.11-cert2, 1.8.12.1, and 10.4.1.

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

The release of Asterisk 1.8.11-cert2, 1.8.12.1, and 10.4.1 resolve the following two issues :

- A remotely exploitable crash vulnerability exists in the IAX2 channel driver if an established call is placed on hold without a suggested music class. Asterisk will attempt to use an invalid pointer to the music on hold class name, potentially causing a crash.

- A remotely exploitable crash vulnerability was found in the Skinny (SCCP) Channel driver. When an SCCP client closes its connection to the server, a pointer in a structure is set to NULL. If the client was not in the on-hook state at the time the connection was closed, this pointer is later dereferenced. This allows remote authenticated connections the ability to cause a crash in the server, denying services to legitimate users.

These issues and their resolution are described in the security advisories.

For more information about the details of these vulnerabilities, please read security advisories AST-2012-007 and AST-2012-008, which were released at the same time as this announcement.

For a full list of changes in the current releases, please see the ChangeLogs :

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/release s/ChangeLog-1.8.11-cert2 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.8.12.1 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-10.4.1

The security advisories are available at :

- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-007.
pdf

- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-00 8.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: Low

ID: 59533

File Name: fedora_2012-8692.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 6/18/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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: 6/1/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2947

BID: 53722

FEDORA: 2012-8692

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