[Asterisk-Dev] Good Explain about Virus in Voip.

[Rob Gagnon]

Of course, a computer CAN be infected by a WORM through VoIP....  If someone 
programs a VoIP client that contains a buffer overflow problem (read: 
Microsoft written software), then anyone could write a program to exploit 
the overflow, and voila... worm

ANY kind of network client/server software is vulnerable to attacks of this 
type.  This is nothing new just because it is VoIP.  The way you protect 
against this is through good network programming, and paying careful 
attention to any functions that copy memory around (IE: memcpy(), strcpy(), 
sprintf(), etc...)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carlos Arnt" <carnt at intellissence.com>
To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:21 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] Good Explain about Virus in Voip.


> Did someone has a good explanation about why Voip can't be infected by 
> virus ??
> Ok Maybe using only hardware stuff and has * that is a linux is good 
> enough but for the Windows clients programs ??
>
> Someone can explain than for me why then we can be just worry about this ?
>
> Thanks alot !
>
> Oh yes whats happend with asterisk-users list ??? Long time i can't 
> receive nothing.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
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