[asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG

[Steve Totaro]

Maybe Adtran can help.

Thanks,
Steve

Matt wrote:
> Goodness no :)   But my point is.. little things like... in version 
> 1.2.6 or 7 maybe?  I don't remember exact version #.  Hitting * while 
> on a call from a queue would disconnect it, even if you were using 
> agentcallbacklogin.   Version 1.0.9 had a memory leak where if it 
> wasn't restarted every night it would eventually just lock up.
>
> To my knowledge, even with current versions of Asterisk, if you hit 
> the Manager interface too hard it will make it start to act funny.
>
> At least in 1.2.6 and 7 if some of your SIP peers were down (that you 
> registered with).. and by down I mean their DNS entries didn't 
> exist...(no DNS resolution for them for whatever reason), when you 
> started Asterisk it would start but not give you sip or zap command 
> options until it finished timing out all of your SIP peers!!!!
>
> My points is not that I would rather use Microsoft at all.  Asterisk 
> is a really great product and we have it in use at many locations, but 
> I get kind of annoyed that every version seems to have more bugs in it 
> that keep it from being usable.
>
> My point with bringing Dan Bernstein into all this is that QMail has 
> had NO security holes found in it, and has had NO bug fixes since 
> version 1.03 came out.   Yes there is a 1.05, but that is to fix a GCC 
> issue... not a QMail issue.  
>
> Is there a reason Digium can't do a bit better QA on the source before 
> releasing it as 'stable'?
>
> On 3/3/07, *shadowym* < shadowym at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:shadowym at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Would you rather use Microsoft?
>      
>     It's damn stable for 95% of people including me.  No memory leaks,
>     no bugs I have seen.
>      
>     I'm not a coder but the fact it is open source makes everything
>     more transparent so you have visibility into everything that is
>     going on.  That make it seem like it is more buggy than closed
>     source but that has not been my experience at all!
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Matt [mailto:mhoppes at gmail.com <mailto:mhoppes at gmail.com>]
>     *Sent:* Saturday, March 03, 2007 9:17 AM
>     *To:* Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>     *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG
>
>     ARG!    I think Digium needs to hire Dan Bernstein
>     <http://cr.yp.to/djb.html> to write their code.  I'm getting tired
>     of bugs, memory leaks, and exploits in Asterisk.
>
>     On 3/2/07, *Mike Lynchfield* <theclubvoip at gmail.com
>     <mailto:theclubvoip at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Please note that we are available to fix the current REMOTE
>         crash that affects Asterisk/openpbx/trixbox and crashes these
>         systems via a malformed packet
>
>         please contacts use if you need a hand to patch your systems.
>
>         http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=9182
>         <http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=9182>
>
>         -- 
>         Mike
>         Sales Manager
>         http://support.voicemeup.com <http://www.voicemeup.com>
>         Making it happen
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