Fedora 7 : asterisk-1.4.18.1-1.fc7 (2008-2620)

high Nessus Plugin ID 31667

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.4.18.1 plus another patch to fix some security issues.
AST-2008-002 details two buffer overflows that were discovered in RTP codec payload type handling. * http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-002.pdf * All users of SIP in Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 are affected. AST-2008-003 details a vulnerability which allows an attacker to bypass SIP authentication and to make a call into the context specified in the general section of sip.conf. * http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-003.pdf * All users of SIP in Asterisk 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, or 1.6 are affected. AST-2008-005 details a problem in the way manager IDs are calculated. * http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-005.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.

See Also

https://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-002.pdf

https://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-003.pdf

https://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-005.pdf

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438127

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438129

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438131

http://www.nessus.org/u?6c5aa321

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31667

File Name: fedora_2008-2620.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:asterisk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1289, CVE-2008-1332, CVE-2008-1390

BID: 28310, 28316

CWE: 119, 255, 264

FEDORA: 2008-2620