Hacking Infinova V1772N-T series PTZ camera (for remote restart)

Hacking Infinova V1772N-T series PTZ camera to solve irritating hanging issue, where web interface becomes unresponsive.

Issue: Camera web interface becomes unresponsive after running for few days. Can't access the camera through web browser even though port 80 is open. Telnet daemon port 23 open but username & password are unknown. Contacted Infinova support several times but no solution.

The only solution to get the camera up and running is to physically power off / cut the power to camera and then power up.

Dumped the passwd/shadow file and cracked the root DES encrypted password.

Soluton:

Login via telnet using root credential and reboot the camera remotely or restart webs service.

After getting root:

root@INFINOVA # cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 000c0000 00020000 "mboot1"
mtd1: 00320000 00020000 "kernel1"
mtd2: 00320000 00020000 "kernel2"
mtd3: 00220000 00020000 "initrd1"
mtd4: 00220000 00020000 "initrd2"
mtd5: 04680000 00020000 "rootfs"
mtd6: 0ae40000 00020000 "data"

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