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Debian: DSA-1048-1 Critical: Asterisk Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2006
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Updated package.

Summary


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 inst...

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