Remote Denial of Service Exploit Effects The Asterisk PBX
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Remote Denial of Service Exploit Effects The Asterisk PBX
Planet Earth (MyGarageCON)—September 26th, 2008, 0420 EDT. VoIP Zero Day, the initiative to improve the quality and security of VoIP applications, today announced another remote Asterisk Denial of Service exploit for public inspection.
It is believed the perl script demonstrates a resource exhaustion style remote attack against the IAX Voice over IP signaling protocol.
All versions of Asterisk are affected.
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