Debian DSA-3700-1 : asterisk - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 94259

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, an open source PBX and telephony toolkit, which may result in denial of service or incorrect certificate validation.

Solution

Upgrade the asterisk packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:11.13.1~dfsg-2+deb8u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/asterisk

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3700

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94259

File Name: debian_DSA-3700.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:asterisk, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3008, CVE-2016-2232, CVE-2016-2316, CVE-2016-7551

DSA: 3700