[asterisk-users] Trixbox Phones Home

Marco Mouta marco.mouta at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 05:38:03 CST 2007


In
http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/trixbox-phones-home
is said Kerry Garrison that:

Both trixbox and FreePBX have phone-home mechanisms in them.

So does FreePBX phones home too?

On Dec 17, 2007 4:27 AM, Than Taro <thanrantaro at live.com> wrote:

>  As I pointed out here last night, there is also a very serious security
> vulnerability associated with this.  Example: An attacker could compromise
> the script that is used on the remote host, and set it to force clients that
> connect to run a command such as "rm -rf /".  There are about half a dozen
> ways I could see this being abused - in either a "one off" or an "every
> installation" scenario.  Fonality has yet to acknowledge this aspect of the
> issue - and I fear that they never will.
>
> See:
> http://voipsa.org/pipermail/voipsec_voipsa.org/2007-December/002522.html
>
>
> P.S.: On behalf of Rob (of FreePBX fame), I'd like to also point out this
> this is something that was added to trixbox, and not FreePBX.  Quoting Rob:
> "when someone mistakenly says 'trixbox does...' they usually mean 'freepbx
> does...' as FreePBX is the GUI Trixbox uses to configure Asterisk".  In this
> instance, that is not the case - it is only a trixbox issue.
>
> > From: email at mattruby.com
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com; asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
> > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:53:53 -0500
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] Trixbox Phones Home
> >
> > I just read on Slashdot (at
> > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/16/222243 ) that Trixbox
> > "has been phoning home with statistics about their installations", as a
> > Trixbox user exposed in "Trixbox Phones Home" at
> >
> http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/trixbox-phones-home.
> > --
> >
> > (C) Matthew Rubenstein
> >
> >
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