Asterisk 1.8.2.2 Now Available (Security Release)

Asterisk 1.8.2.2 Now Available (Security Release)

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:35:00 -0400 The Asterisk Development Team has announced a release for the security issue described in AST-2011-001.

Due to a failed merge, Asterisk 1.8.2.1 which should have included the security fix did not. Asterisk 1.8.2.2 contains the the changes which should have been included in Asterisk 1.8.2.1.

This releases is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases

The releases of Asterisk 1.4.38.1, 1.4.39.1, 1.6.1.21, 1.6.2.15.1, 1.6.2.16.2, 1.8.1.2, and 1.8.2.2 resolve an issue when forming an outgoing SIP request while in pedantic mode, which can cause a stack buffer to be made to overflow if supplied with carefully crafted caller ID information. The issue and resolution are described in the AST-2011-001 security advisory.

For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please read the security advisory AST-2011-001, which was released at the same time as this announcement.

For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.8.2.2

Security advisory AST-2011-001 is available at:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-001.pdf

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!