A Quick VoIP Experiment, (Wed, Aug 17th)

To better detect any exploit attempts taking advantage of the recent Realtek vulnerability, I experimented with the open source VoIP server Asterisk. I just set it up, listening for inbound connections. The server had no existing accounts configured or connected to an upstream VoIP service. Using it for actual phone calls was impossible, but it would respond.

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Realtek SDK SIP ALG Vulnerability: A Big Deal, but not much you can do about it. CVE 2022-27255, (Sun, Aug 14th)

On Friday, Octavio Gianatiempo &#;x26; Octavio Galland released details about a vulnerability in Realtek&#;x26;#;39;s eCos SDK. The release came as part of their talk at Defcon. Realtek patched the vulnerability they spoke about in March. But this patch may not do you much good. The vulnerability affects Realtek&#;x26;#;39;s SDK. Various vendors use this SDK as part of the equipment that uses Realtek&#;x26;#;39;s RTL819x SoCs. Affected vendors need to release patched firmware to mitigate this vulnerability. Many affected vendors have not yet released updates.

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