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Location:
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Registered:
February 2003
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Re: Any RTP/Firewall Experts?
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Mon, 17 October 2005 07:35
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...I got a feeling enabling it for the entire workplace would open the organisation to potential attacks from some crafted SIP or H.323 packets
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this is just a neater way of saying "I vaguely recall reading a slashdot story about using video conferencing to attack a ...".
If they know where the traffic's coming from, who it's going to, then you should be able to impliment some kind of authenticated (not just 'trusted') access.
Sure it's a sane approach to network security (deny everything, allow what you know) but that doesn't preclude learning.
This simple search found a number of references to the exploit - but it seems to be a DoS attack, not door opener.
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