SIP VULNERABILITIES TESTING IN SESSION ESTABLISHMENT & USER REGISTRATION

Peter Qi Qiu, Ostap Monkewic, Robert L. Probert

2004

Abstract

This paper describes an attack-directed approach to test SIP authentication vulnerabilities in session establishment and user registration. This approach aims to exercise the known areas of weakness including the inherent vulnerabilities in SIP specification and the implementation vulnerabilities caused by programmers’ negligence. By using this approach and a self-made testing tool, we have successfully identified a number of vulnerabilities in a popular open source SIP implementation, namely VOCAL. This effective approach can also be used to test any other SIP implementations.

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Qi Qiu P., Monkewic O. and L. Probert R. (2004). SIP VULNERABILITIES TESTING IN SESSION ESTABLISHMENT & USER REGISTRATION . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: SVoIPNet, (ICETE 2004) ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 223-229. DOI: 10.5220/0001405402230229


in Bibtex Style

@conference{svoipnet04,
author={Peter Qi Qiu and Ostap Monkewic and Robert L. Probert},
title={SIP VULNERABILITIES TESTING IN SESSION ESTABLISHMENT & USER REGISTRATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: SVoIPNet, (ICETE 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={223-229},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001405402230229},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: SVoIPNet, (ICETE 2004)
TI - SIP VULNERABILITIES TESTING IN SESSION ESTABLISHMENT & USER REGISTRATION
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Qi Qiu P.
AU - Monkewic O.
AU - L. Probert R.
PY - 2004
SP - 223
EP - 229
DO - 10.5220/0001405402230229