[cisco-voip] Cisco phones vulnerable to hack / remote access?

[Nick Matthews]

This may help:
https://psirt.cisco.com/PSIRThot/7900KernelSysCall

Particularly that they need physical access or the user authentication
details for this attack to happen.

-nick


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hah i just had someone ask me about this same article this morning. There
> was a article on it in IEEE Spectrum also - neither article seemed to give
> enough info for customers to take specific action on.
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> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Robert Kulagowski <rkulagow at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Since no one who knows anything for real is probably going to say
>> anything for now, are there any mitigating factors that I can start
>> thinking about once management sees the following article?
>>
>>
>> http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/04/16328998-popular-office-phones-vulnerable-to-eavesdropping-hack-researchers-say?lite
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