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[DSA1126] DSA-1126-1 asterisk

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1126-1 asterisk

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

A problem has been discovered in the IAX2 channel driver of Asterisk,
an Open Source Private Branch Exchange and telephony toolkit, which
may permit a remote attacker to cause a crash of the Asterisk server.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.7.dfsg.1-2sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your asterisk packages.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1126
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 18295

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2006 Michel Arboi

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