[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: asterisk-1.8.4.2-1.fc15.1

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-8319
2011-06-14 10:02:54
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Name        : asterisk
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.8.4.2
Release     : 1.fc15.1
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.

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Update Information:

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk
version 1.8.4.2, which is a security release for Asterisk 1.8.

This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases

The release of Asterisk 1.8.4.2 resolves an issue with SIP URI
parsing which can lead to a remotely exploitable crash:

   Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-007)

The issue and resolution is described in the AST-2011-007 security
advisory.

For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please
read the security advisory AST-2011-007, 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-1.8.4.2

Security advisory AST-2011-007 is available at:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-007.pdf

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.4.1.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.8.4.1 resolves several issues reported by the
community. Without your help this release would not have been possible.
Thank you!

Below is a list of issues resolved in this release:

 * Fix our compliance with RFC 3261 section 18.2.2. (aka Cisco phone fix)
  (Closes issue #18951. Reported by jmls. Patched by wdoekes)

 * Resolve a change in IPv6 header parsing due to the Cisco phone fix issue.
  This issue was found and reported by the Asterisk test suite.
  (Closes issue #18951. Patched by mnicholson)

 * Resolve potential crash when using SIP TLS support.
  (Closes issue #19192. Reported by stknob. Patched by Chainsaw. Tested by
   vois, Chainsaw)

 * Improve reliability when using SIP TLS.
  (Closes issue #19182. Reported by st. Patched by mnicholson)


For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.4.1

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.4. This
release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.8.4 resolves several issues reported by the community.
Without your help this release would not have been possible. Thank you!

Below is a sample of the issues resolved in this release:

 * Use SSLv23_client_method instead of old SSLv2 only.
  (Closes issue #19095, #19138. Reported, patched by tzafrir. Tested by russell
  and chazzam.

 * Resolve crash in ast_mutex_init()
  (Patched by twilson)

 * Resolution of several DTMF based attended transfer issues.
  (Closes issue #17999, #17096, #18395, #17273. Reported by iskatel, gelo,
  shihchuan, grecco. Patched by rmudgett)

  NOTE: Be sure to read the ChangeLog for more information about these changes.

 * Resolve deadlocks related to device states in chan_sip
  (Closes issue #18310. Reported, patched by one47. Patched by jpeeler)

 * Resolve an issue with the Asterisk manager interface leaking memory when
  disabled.
  (Reported internally by kmorgan. Patched by russellb)

 * Support greetingsfolder as documented in voicemail.conf.sample.
  (Closes issue #17870. Reported by edhorton. Patched by seanbright)

 * Fix channel redirect out of MeetMe() and other issues with channel softhangup
  (Closes issue #18585. Reported by oej. Tested by oej, wedhorn, russellb.
  Patched by russellb)

 * Fix voicemail sequencing for file based storage.
  (Closes issue #18498, #18486. Reported by JJCinAZ, bluefox. Patched by
  jpeeler)

 * Set hangup cause in local_hangup so the proper return code of 486 instead of
  503 when using Local channels when the far sides returns a busy. Also affects
  CCSS in Asterisk 1.8+.
  (Patched by twilson)

 * Fix issues with verbose messages not being output to the console.
  (Closes issue #18580. Reported by pabelanger. Patched by qwell)

 * Fix Deadlock with attended transfer of SIP call
  (Closes issue #18837. Reported, patched by alecdavis. Tested by
  alecdavid, Irontec, ZX81, cmaj)

Includes changes per AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006
For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.4

Information about the security releases are available at:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-005.pdf
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-006.pdf

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 10 2011 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 1.8.4.2-1.1
- Perl 5.14 mass rebuild
* Fri Jun  3 2011 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> - 1.8.4.2-1:
-
- The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk
- version 1.8.4.2, which is a security release for Asterisk 1.8.
- 
- This release is available for immediate download at
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases
- 
- The release of Asterisk 1.8.4.2 resolves an issue with SIP URI
- parsing which can lead to a remotely exploitable crash:
- 
-    Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-007)
- 
- The issue and resolution is described in the AST-2011-007 security
- advisory.
- 
- For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please
- read the security advisory AST-2011-007, 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-1.8.4.2
-
- Security advisory AST-2011-007 is available at:
-
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-007.pdf
-
- The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.4.1.
- This release is available for immediate download at
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
- 
- The release of Asterisk 1.8.4.1 resolves several issues reported by the
- community. Without your help this release would not have been possible.
- Thank you!
- 
- Below is a list of issues resolved in this release:
- 
-  * Fix our compliance with RFC 3261 section 18.2.2. (aka Cisco phone fix)
-   (Closes issue #18951. Reported by jmls. Patched by wdoekes)
- 
-  * Resolve a change in IPv6 header parsing due to the Cisco phone fix issue.
-   This issue was found and reported by the Asterisk test suite.
-   (Closes issue #18951. Patched by mnicholson)
- 
-  * Resolve potential crash when using SIP TLS support.
-   (Closes issue #19192. Reported by stknob. Patched by Chainsaw. Tested by
-    vois, Chainsaw)
- 
-  * Improve reliability when using SIP TLS.
-   (Closes issue #19182. Reported by st. Patched by mnicholson)
- 
- 
- For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:
- 
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.4.1

- The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.4. This
- release is available for immediate download at
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
- 
- The release of Asterisk 1.8.4 resolves several issues reported by the community.
- Without your help this release would not have been possible. Thank you!
- 
- Below is a sample of the issues resolved in this release:
- 
-  * Use SSLv23_client_method instead of old SSLv2 only.
-   (Closes issue #19095, #19138. Reported, patched by tzafrir. Tested by russell
-   and chazzam.
- 
-  * Resolve crash in ast_mutex_init()
-   (Patched by twilson)
- 
-  * Resolution of several DTMF based attended transfer issues.
-   (Closes issue #17999, #17096, #18395, #17273. Reported by iskatel, gelo,
-   shihchuan, grecco. Patched by rmudgett)
- 
-   NOTE: Be sure to read the ChangeLog for more information about these changes.
- 
-  * Resolve deadlocks related to device states in chan_sip
-   (Closes issue #18310. Reported, patched by one47. Patched by jpeeler)
- 
-  * Resolve an issue with the Asterisk manager interface leaking memory when
-   disabled.
-   (Reported internally by kmorgan. Patched by russellb)
- 
-  * Support greetingsfolder as documented in voicemail.conf.sample.
-   (Closes issue #17870. Reported by edhorton. Patched by seanbright)
- 
-  * Fix channel redirect out of MeetMe() and other issues with channel softhangup
-   (Closes issue #18585. Reported by oej. Tested by oej, wedhorn, russellb.
-   Patched by russellb)
- 
-  * Fix voicemail sequencing for file based storage.
-   (Closes issue #18498, #18486. Reported by JJCinAZ, bluefox. Patched by
-   jpeeler)
- 
-  * Set hangup cause in local_hangup so the proper return code of 486 instead of
-   503 when using Local channels when the far sides returns a busy. Also affects
-   CCSS in Asterisk 1.8+.
-   (Patched by twilson)
- 
-  * Fix issues with verbose messages not being output to the console.
-   (Closes issue #18580. Reported by pabelanger. Patched by qwell)
- 
-  * Fix Deadlock with attended transfer of SIP call
-   (Closes issue #18837. Reported, patched by alecdavis. Tested by
-   alecdavid, Irontec, ZX81, cmaj)
- 
- Includes changes per AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006
- For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:
- 
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.4
- 
- Information about the security releases are available at:
- 
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-005.pdf
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-006.pdf
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #710441 - CVE-2011-2216 Asterisk: Remote DoS (crash) in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-007)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710441
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update asterisk' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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