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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-0170
2013-01-22 02:45:40
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Name : asterisk
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 1.8.20.0
Release : 1.el6
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 the release of Asterisk 1.8.20.0.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk
The release of Asterisk 1.8.20.0 resolves several issues reported by the
community and would have not been possible without your participation.
Thank you!
The following is a sample of the issues resolved in this release:
* --- app_meetme: Fix channels lingering when hung up under certain
conditions
(Closes issue ASTERISK-20486. Reported by Michael Cargile)
* --- Fix stuck DTMF when bridge is broken.
(Closes issue ASTERISK-20492. Reported by Jeremiah Gowdy)
* --- Improve Code Readability And Fix Setting natdetected Flag
(Closes issue ASTERISK-20724. Reported by Michael L. Young)
* --- Fix extension matching with the '-' char.
(Closes issue ASTERISK-19205. Reported by Philippe Lindheimer, Birger "WIMPy"
Harzenetter)
* --- Fix call files when astspooldir is relative.
(Closes issue ASTERISK-20593. Reported by James Le Cuirot)
For a full list of changes in this release, please see the ChangeLog:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.20.0
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #891646 - CVE-2012-5976 asterisk: Crashes due to large stack allocations when
using TCP (AST-2012-014)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891646
[ 2 ] Bug #891649 - CVE-2012-5977 asterisk: Denial of service through exploitation of
device state caching (AST-2012-015)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891649
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. 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 EPEL 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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