Cisco and bugtraq need to know this! josh.
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 09:21, Matthew Hardeman wrote: > Cisco should really be ashamed of this product... > > While it is physically well constructed, and has excellent sound > quality along with a very pleasant user interface, the device has > SERIOUS stability issues, unless you run your network with an iron > fist... > > Quite by accident, while configuring my Asterisk system to connect to > a Cisco 7960 via SIP in a standard office PBX type arrangement, I > discovered something interesting... > > By screwing around with both the source IP address of a SIP message, > along with certain IP addresses in the SIP message itself, it's quite > easy to crash the Cisco. > > In short, it would be trivial to DOS (by forcing continuous crashes > and the subsequent reboots) any Cisco 7960 that you can route UDP > packets to... > > Matt Hardeman > PaperSoft > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Josh Howlett, Networking & Digital Communications, Information Systems & Computing, University of Bristol, U.K. 'phone: 0117 928 7850 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
