Cheers,DanielOn 21/10/15 10:35, Guillaume wrote:
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 replace 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
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