Asterisk 1.4.17 released to fix SIP Security Issue.

The Asterisk development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.17 which fixes SIP security issue, as well as a number of other bug fixes.

The SIP security issue is documented in the published security advisory, AST-2008-001. This issue only affects Asterisk 1.4. Asterisk 1.2 is not affected. Systems that do not use chan_sip are also not affected.

The security advisory is here in PDF format.

The release 1.4.17 is available for immediate download.

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