RTP permission and related attacks/threats

[yhameed81]

HI Guys,

I have to permit RTP traffic from internal network to other organizations (under different management) on gateway devices (routers, switches). I am curious to know if there are known attacks/threats when upd range 16384-32767 is permited. RTP source/destination can be desk phone or PC with softphone. If yes then can we configure gateway routers/switches to protect from these attacks.

We have cisco 7200, 6500, 3550, 3560, 3750 switches as gateway devices.

One more quick question are there only two ways (NBAR and ACL with udp range) on routers/switches to identify/match RTP traffic? I know Firewalls provide feature like inspect, AGL etc to dynamically identify RTP ports by inspecting control traffic.

Your input will be highly appreciated

Regards

[Julio Carvajal]

Hello,

On a router you do it with NBAR or ACL's (Of course the more scalable is the Protocol matching).

Now, regarding security there are a lot of information available on the internated related to hacking an RTP session.

You have some homework to do

My recommendation:

Read chapter 4 I think of the Hacking VoIP book

For more information about Core and Security Networking follow my website at http://laguiadelnetworking.com

Any question contact me at jcarvaja@laguiadelnetworking.com

Cheers,

Julio Carvajal Segura