Package : asterisk Vulnerability : several Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CVE-2005-3559 CVE-2006-1827 BugTraq ID : 15336 Debian Bug : 338116
Several problems have been discovered in Asterisk, an Open Source Private Branch Exchange (telephone control center). The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2005-3559
Adam Pointon discovered that due to missing input sanitising it is possible to retrieve recorded phone messages for a different extension.
CVE-2006-1827
Emmanouel Kellinis discovered an integer signedness error that could trigger a buffer overflow and hence allow the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.11-3woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.7.dfsg.1-2sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.7.1.dfsg-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------