log of sent DTMF tones

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Sun Apr 8 14:11:34 CEST 2012


Hello,

I was testing something and used a toll free number of my local bank
(because it is free and there is a voice and DTMF System menu to play
around)... I was suprised seeing lines like this in
/var/log/fsogsmd.log:

2012-04-08T11:49:59.395616Z [INFO]  libfsotransport <0710:2>: SRC: "+VTS=#" -> [ "OK" ]

The value of +VTS=x is the DTMF tone to send; the value x should not be logged,
at least not in the INFO level; keep in mind that such DTMF tones often
are used to send credentials, PIN or other secret information to the
other side of a call. While it is technically nearly imposible to
intercept them in the call, it is prety much easy to read them out of
the log files of a (stolen or lost) phone.

I will file a bug report in Trac for SHR.

Thanks

	matthias
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