Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the CVE identifiers below for details.
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.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Asterisk 11 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-11.10.2"
All Asterisk 1.8 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2"