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asterisk: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):asterisk CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5444
Created:October 19, 2006 Updated:December 6, 2006
Description: The Asterisk telephony PBX application has a heap overflow vulnerability in the skinny channel driver. A remote attacker can use this to arbitrarily execute code with the privileges of the Asterisk user. See this vulnerability report for more information.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1229-1 2006-12-06
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:069 2006-11-16
Gentoo 200610-15 2006-10-30
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.024 2006-10-19
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