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How doing QA testing for SIPVicious PRO led to an Asterisk DoS

Executive summary (TL;DR) While heavily testing SIPVicious PRO for bugs, we encountered an unexpected crash in Asterisk. We reported this to the Asterisk team, who recently issued a fix. If you’re a vendor, you too can beta test SIPVicious PRO! How the Asterisk crash was found We test our software as much as we can because, like any other software, ours contains bugs too! When it comes to SIPVicious PRO, one of our quality assurance tests is to run it against instances of Asterisk and Kamailio and check for expected results.…

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ClueCon Weekly with Sandro Gauci, demonstration of SIP Digest Leak

Published on Oct 16, 2020 in , ,

ClueCon weekly is a regular video by the people behind Freeswitch and Signalwire, hosted by the very friendly David Duffet. I had the pleasure of recording an interview and a presentation with David a few weeks back. If you would like a summary of what the video chat was about, scroll down to the points below. Otherwise, hope you enjoy the chat as much as I did! Summary Here’s an outline of what went on:…

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RTC Security chat at Kamailio World Online with Daniel and Olle

It’s been a month already since the Kamailio World RTC security chat! The conversation included Daniel-Constantin Mierla and Olle E. Johansson from the Kamailio project and myself. Daniel is the lead developer of Kamailio, can be found at ASIPTO while Olle is behind Edvina.net. If you don’t have time to watch the entire conversation, the following is my summary of this discussion: Introductions and discussions After introductions from Daniel, I took lead to briefly mention what we at Enable Security have been up to, including our work on SIPVicious PRO, our research on WebRTC security especially regarding the TURN server abuse vulnerability, our work on DoS in VoIP and WebRTC infrastructure and finally, research on how Kamailio may be (mis)configured to introduce vulnerabilities.…

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Smuggling SIP headers past Session Border Controllers FTW!

Published on Sep 1, 2020 in , , ,

Executive summary (TL;DR) SIP Header smuggling is a thing; in some cases it may be super-bad. It affected Kamailio and we have published a Github project to easily demonstrate and test this for yourself. Kamailio has since fixed the issue in release 5.4.0 but similar issues are likely to affect other SBCs. Usage of special SIP headers When it comes to trusted SIP networks, one of the primary ways that information is passed across different hops is through SIP headers.…

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