[Asterisk-Users] Can bad person with SIPp attack Asterisk ?

Robert Rozman rozman at fri.uni-lj.si
Wed Oct 27 14:43:15 MST 2004


Hi,

I was more concerned about SIP calls. SIPp is a tool that can do test load
for Asterisk PBX - it can generate lots of SIP paralel calls to Asterisk. I
wonder if this is something that bad person could use to cripple Asterisk
server ?

Regards,

Robert.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Giagnocavo" <mgg-digium at atrevido.net>
To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Can bad person with SIPp attack Asterisk ?


> They could send lots of traffic and DoS you sure... nothing specific to
> Asterisk.
>
> Otherwise, they'd have to rely on a security hole in the software itself.
I
> don't know of any, and I'm sure they'd get fixed really fast if they were
> found...
> -Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Rozman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Can bad person with SIPp attack Asterisk ?
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry maybe dumb question. But could person with bad intent attack
Asterisk
> PBX with SIPp tool ?
>
> Can Asterisk be overloaded this way and not working OK for the rest of
> conversations ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert.
>
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