Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
fix build on s390 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-cert7, 1.8.15.1, 10.7.1, and 10.7.1-digiumphones.
These releases are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases
The release of Asterisk 1.8.11-cert7, 1.8.15.1, 10.7.1, and 10.7.1-digiumphones resolve the following two issues :
- A permission escalation vulnerability in Asterisk Manager Interface. This would potentially allow remote authenticated users the ability to execute commands on the system shell with the privileges of the user running the Asterisk application. Please note that the README-SERIOUSLY.bestpractices.txt file delivered with Asterisk has been updated due to this and other related vulnerabilities fixed in previous versions of Asterisk.
- When an IAX2 call is made using the credentials of a peer defined in a dynamic Asterisk Realtime Architecture (ARA) backend, the ACL rules for that peer are not applied to the call attempt. This allows for a remote attacker who is aware of a peer's credentials to bypass the ACL rules set for that peer.
These issues and their resolutions are described in the security advisories.
For more information about the details of these vulnerabilities, please read security advisories AST-2012-012 and AST-2012-013, 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-cert7 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-1.8.15.1 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-10.7.1 http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLo g-10.7.1-digiumphones
The security advisories are available at :
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-012.
pdf
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-01 3.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.
Plugin Details
File Name: fedora_2012-13286.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:asterisk
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2012