[ GLSA 201406-25 ] Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201406-25)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: June 25, 2014
Bug(s): #513102
ID: 201406-25

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, the
worst of which could allow privileged users to execute arbitrary system
shell commands.


Background

Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.

Affected Packages

Package: net-misc/asterisk
Vulnerable: < 11.10.2
Unaffected: >= 11.10.2
Unaffected: >= 1.8.28.2 < 1.8.28.3
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review
the CVE identifiers below for details.


Impact

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.


Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Asterisk 11 users should upgrade to the latest version: