Security Information / 2013 / Security Information -- DSA-2749-1 asterisk

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2749-1 asterisk -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

02 Sep 2013

Affected Packages:

asterisk

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-5641, CVE-2013-5642.

More information:

Colin Cuthbertson and Walter Doekes discovered two vulnerabilities in the SIP processing code of Asterisk - an open source PBX and telephony toolkit -, which could result in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze11.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.13.1~dfsg-3+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk packages.