[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:57:02AM +0100, Senad Jordanovic wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Dunno if anyone else has seen this yet:
>>>
>>
http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/563800/vulnerabilities+put+asteris
>> k+telephone+systems+risk/
>>
>> we do not run asterisk (or any other critical services including
>> PBXware) as root on the host as normal process.
>> we are using chroot with very limited set of tools and non-root
>> operation. so ... it is much more secure.
>
> Well, that protects the rest of the system from a potential problem
> with Asterisk. But not the rest of the network. Not to mention that
> it does not protect the PBX itself.
>
> A good practice, nontheless.

of course, but other than that one cannot do much more without going into
IDS services.


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