potential fax server security issues?

From: Maarten (maartenh_at_phreaker.net)
Date: 01/13/04

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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:48:52 +0100

    Hi,

    I was wondering if any of you has experience in testing fax servers. I am
    looking for some insides on potential vulnerabilities on the modem side of a
    fax server.
    Could an attacker for instance (potentially):
    - Discover the fax server using a war dialler (yes)
    - Connect to the fax server using his modem (yes)
    - Initiate some kind of overflow on the fax server software after the modem
    connection has been established, gaining a shell on the system????

    Has anyone been looking into this kind of stuff? Am I being overly paranoid
    at this point?

    thanks!
    Maarten

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