gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201202-06.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201202-06">
  <title>Asterisk: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Asterisk could allow a remote attacker to cause
    a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">asterisk</product>
  <announced>February 22, 2012</announced>
  <revised>February 22, 2012: 1</revised>
  <bug>399507</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/asterisk" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.8.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.8.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability has been found in Asterisk's handling of certain
      encrypted streams where the res_srtp module has been loaded but video
      support has not been enabled.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SDP message to the
      Asterisk daemon, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Asterisk users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/asterisk-1.8.8.2"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0885">CVE-2012-0885</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:53:19 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:58:56 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>