Fedora 17 : asterisk-10.5.2-1.fc17 (2012-10324)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 60069

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The Asterisk Development Team has announced security releases for Certified Asterisk 1.8.11 and Asterisk 1.8 and 10. The available security releases are released as versions 1.8.11-cert4, 1.8.13.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.2-digiumphones.

These releases are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases

The release of Asterisk 1.8.11-cert4, 1.8.13.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.2-digiumphones resolve the following two issues :

- If Asterisk sends a re-invite and an endpoint responds to the re-invite with a provisional response but never sends a final response, then the SIP dialog structure is never freed and the RTP ports for the call are never released. If an attacker has the ability to place a call, they could create a denial of service by using all available RTP ports.

- If a single voicemail account is manipulated by two parties simultaneously, a condition can occur where memory is freed twice causing a crash.

These issues and their resolution are described in the security advisories.

For more information about the details of these vulnerabilities, please read security advisories AST-2012-010 and AST-2012-011, which were released at the same time as this announcement.

For a full list of changes in the current releases, please see the ChangeLogs :

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/release s/ChangeLog-1.8.11-cert4 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.8.13.1 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-10.5.2 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-10.5.2-digiumphones

The security advisories are available at :

- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-010.
pdf

- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-01 1.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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-010.pdf

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-011.pdf

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/

http://www.nessus.org/u?018f28b9

http://www.nessus.org/u?9a7457b9

http://www.nessus.org/u?4b73d250

http://www.nessus.org/u?07969e81

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838178

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838179

http://www.nessus.org/u?b0d3841c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 60069

File Name: fedora_2012-10324.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2012

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: 4

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:asterisk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3812, CVE-2012-3863

BID: 54317, 54327

FEDORA: 2012-10324