Asterisk is een uitgebreide pbx voor BSD, Linux en macOS. Het programma biedt alle functies die je van een telefooncentrale mag verwachten. Zo beschikt het onder andere over mogelijkheden voor voicemail, conferencing en call-queueing. Daarnaast is ondersteuning voor caller-id-services, adsi, sip en h323 aanwezig. Voor een compleet overzicht van alle mogelijkheden verwijzen we naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben Asterisk 15.6.1, 14.7.8, 13.23.1 en 13.21-cert3 uitgebracht, voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
Asterisk 13.23.1, 14.7.8, 15.6.1 and 13.21-cert3 Now Available (Security)
The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce security releases for Asterisk 13, 14 and 15, and Certified Asterisk 13.21. The available releases are released as versions 13.23.1, 14.7.8, 15.6.1 and 13.21-cert3.
These releases are available for immediate download at
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/releases
The following security vulnerabilities were resolved in these versions:For a full list of changes in the current releases, please see the ChangeLogs:
- AST-2018-009: Remote crash vulnerability in HTTP websocket upgrade There is a stack overflow vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk that allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a websocket. The attacker’s request causes Asterisk to run out of stack space and crash.
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-13.23.1
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-14.7.8
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-15.6.1
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-certified-13.21-cert3
The security advisory is available at:
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-009.pdf
Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!