DSA-2460-1 asterisk -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2460-1 asterisk -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

25 Apr 2012

Affected Packages:

asterisk

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-1183, CVE-2012-2414, CVE-2012-2415.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Asterisk PBX and telephony toolkit:

• CVE-2012-1183

  Russell Bryant discovered a buffer overflow in the Milliwatt application.

• CVE-2012-2414

  David Woolley discovered a privilege escalation in the Asterisk manager interface.

• CVE-2012-2415

  Russell Bryant discovered a buffer overflow in the Skinny driver.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk packages.