[sr-dev] Implementation of RFC 5393

Hi guys, What do you think about the RFC 5393 on loop detection and amplification attack protection? The RFC is short and still a proposed standard but don't you think it could be useful to prevent loop and amplification attack? Because even if the max-forward field reduces the loop to ~70 hosts (in most cases) with some techniques we could fork the message up to 2^70 messages (as described in the RFC) to crash the servers. Basically the server has to do 2 things: * check if it is not already in the via of the message * the previous check is not enough as a B2BUA could have replaced the via headers, so the RFC introduces a new field called max-breadth to limit the forking. I have not seen a lot of implementation of this RFC on the free SIP software and I think it could be a good way to improve kamailio making a module for it (the easier way to implement this feature I think). In fact I'm in a research internship about VoIP security and I have time to develop such a module for kamailio if you think it's a good idea (I'm looking for some security improvements in free software solutions so if you have other idea don't hesitate to tell me). Cheers, Tetram