Security
Security
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, the worst of which could allow privileged users to execute arbitrary system shell commands.
| Package | net-misc/asterisk on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 11.10.2 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 11.10.2 revision >= 1.8.28.2 |
Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the CVE identifiers below for details.
A remote attacker that gains access to a privileged Asterisk account can execute arbitrary system shell commands. Furthermore an unprivileged remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Asterisk 11 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-11.10.2"
All Asterisk 1.8 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2"
Release date
June 25, 2014
Latest revision
June 25, 2014: 2
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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