-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-5835 2011-04-23 01:12:07 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : asterisk Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.8.3.3 Release : 1.fc15 URL : http://www.asterisk.org/ Summary : The Open Source PBX Description : Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: The Asterisk Development Team has announced security releases for Asterisk branches 1.4, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, and 1.8. The available security releases are released as versions 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.17.3, and 1.8.3.3. These releases are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases The releases of Asterisk 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.17.3, and 1.8.3.3 resolve two issues: * File Descriptor Resource Exhaustion (AST-2011-005) * Asterisk Manager User Shell Access (AST-2011-006) The issues and resolutions are described in the AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006 security advisories. For more information about the details of these vulnerabilities, please read the security advisories AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006, which were released at the same time as this announcement. For a full list of changes in the current releases, please see the ChangeLog: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.4.40.1 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.1.25 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.2.17.3 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.8.3.3 Security advisory AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006 are available at: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-005.pdf http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-006.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #698916 - CVE-2011-1507 Asterisk: file descriptor resource exhaustion (AST-2011-005) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698916 [ 2 ] Bug #698917 - CVE-2011-1599 Asterisk: Shell command execution via manager Originate action (AST-2011-006) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698917 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update asterisk' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
