Bug 1166691 (CVE-2014-8418)

Summary: CVE-2014-8418 asterisk: AMI permission escalation through DB dialplan function [AST-2014-018]
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Martin Prpič <mprpic>
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Description Martin Prpič 2014-11-21 13:29:53 UTC
The following issue was made public in the AST-2014-018 advisory [1][2]:

The DB dialplan function when executed from an external protocol (for
instance AMI), could result in a privilege escalation.

Patches for this issue are linked to in the AST-2014-018 [1][2] advisory.

References:
[1] http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2014-018.pdf
[2] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/71

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2014-11-21 13:30:20 UTC
Created asterisk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1166692]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1166693]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:36:34 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.