Debian DSA-2749-1 : asterisk - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69542

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Colin Cuthbertson and Walter Doekes discovered two vulnerabilities in the SIP processing code of Asterisk - an open source PBX and telephony toolkit -, which could result in denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the asterisk packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze11.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.13.1~dfsg-3+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69542

File Name: debian_DSA-2749.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/3/2013

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5641, CVE-2013-5642

BID: 62021, 62022

DSA: 2749

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