--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-4728
2011-10-18 18:54:00
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : asterisk
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 1.8.7.1
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.asterisk.org/
Summary : The Open Source PBX
Description :
Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides
all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk
does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with
almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively
inexpensive hardware.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:
The Asterisk Development Team has announced a security release for Asterisk 1.8.
The available security release is released as version 1.8.7.1.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases
The release of Asterisk 1.8.7.1 resolves an issue with SIP URI parsing which can
lead to a remotely exploitable crash:
Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-012)
The issue and resolution is described in the AST-2011-012 security
advisory.
For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please read the
security advisory AST-2011-012, which was released at the same time as this
announcement.
For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1...
Security advisory AST-2011-012 is available at:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-012.pdf
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #746817 - CVE-2011-4063 asterisk: remote crash in SIP channel driver
(AST-2011-012)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746817
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update asterisk' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------