VoIP Zero Day

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Suspect: Asterisk Resource Exhaustion

During The Last HOPE an IAX Resource Exhaustion 0day DoS was released for the Asterisk PBX. This 0day was in the wild for 4 days before a patch was released.
During these four days, any attacker could have attacked any publicly accessible Asterisk server and forced it to stop processing all phone calls. What [...]

Written by Algo Rythmn

September 4th, 2008 at 7:56 am