GLSA 201411-10: Asterisk: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Asterisk: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:	11/23/2014
Bugs:	#523216, #526208
ID:	201411-10

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk, the worst of which could lead to Denial of Service.

Background

Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-misc/asterisk	< 11.13.1	>= 11.13.1	All supported architectures

Description

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

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a man in the middle attack or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Asterisk users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-11.13.1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-10.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.