[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: asterisk-1.8.3.3-1.fc15

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5835
2011-04-23 01:12:07
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Name        : asterisk
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.8.3.3
Release     : 1.fc15
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 security releases for Asterisk
branches 1.4, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, and 1.8. The available security releases are
released as versions 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.17.3, and 1.8.3.3.

These releases are available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases

The releases of Asterisk 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.17.3, and 1.8.3.3 resolve two
issues:

* File Descriptor Resource Exhaustion (AST-2011-005)
* Asterisk Manager User Shell Access (AST-2011-006)

The issues and resolutions are described in the AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006
security advisories.

For more information about the details of these vulnerabilities, please read the
security advisories AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006, which were released at the
same time as this announcement.

For a full list of changes in the current releases, please see the ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.4.40.1
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.1.25
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.2.17.3
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.8.3.3

Security advisory AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006 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 #698916 - CVE-2011-1507 Asterisk: file descriptor resource exhaustion (AST-2011-005)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698916
  [ 2 ] Bug #698917 - CVE-2011-1599 Asterisk: Shell command execution via manager Originate action (AST-2011-006)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698917
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  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 Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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