Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package asterisk  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-ASTERISK-629439
  • published24 Nov 2014
  • disclosed24 Nov 2014

Introduced: 24 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8418  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream asterisk package and not the asterisk package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The DB dialplan function in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.32, 11.x before 11.1.4.1, 12.x before 12.7.1, and 13.x before 13.0.1 and Certified Asterisk 1.8 before 1.8.28-cert8 and 11.6 before 11.6-cert8 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a call from an external protocol, as demonstrated by the AMI protocol.