[VOIPSEC] Virus/Worms/Trojan attack against VoIP

[gary madsen]

A few come to mind related to Cisco.  Any VoIP vendor is prone to worm
attacks though if the underlying OS is vulnerable.  Cisco is just good
about documenting these issues.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_tech_note09186a00801ae3dc.shtml
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-120.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_tech_note09186a00800941e4.shtml

Cheers,
Gary

On 5/10/06, Gupta, Sachin <s-gupta2 at ti.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anybody aware of the possibility of virus attack on a Resedential
> Gateway / IP Phone, running of a well known Operating system, with Voice
> capabilities ?
> This kind of attack can even remove or change the digital certificates .
> Soft phones may not fall in this category as they run on PCs which may
> have antivirus installed.
>
> Is this a theoritical attack or anything like this has happened before?
>
>
> Sachin
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