GLSA 201406-25: Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	06/25/2014
Bugs:	#513102
ID:	201406-25

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, the worst of which could allow privileged users to execute arbitrary system shell commands.

Background

Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-misc/asterisk	< 11.10.2	>= 11.10.2	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the CVE identifiers below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker that gains access to a privileged Asterisk account can execute arbitrary system shell commands. Furthermore an unprivileged remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Asterisk 11 users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-11.10.2"

All Asterisk 1.8 users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-25.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.