Re: Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

[John Kinsella <jlk () thrashyour com>]

Lynn's is not a vulnerability per-se, in my mind, but a way to take a
vulnerability and turn it into Something Useful.

John

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:02:38PM -0500, Madison, Marc wrote:
>  Am I missing something here, because it seems that two vulnerabilities
> are being discussed, one is the IPv6 DOS
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050729-ipv6.shtml.  And
> the other is Lynn presentation on shellcode execution via the IOS?
>
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> > > Read the advisory a bit closer. Here the relevant lines:
> "Products that are not running Cisco IOS are not affected.
> Products running any version of Cisco IOS that do not have IPv6
> configured interfaces are not vulnerable."
>
> Yes, IOS versions that have the fix, or that don't even run IPv6 are not
> *vulnerable*. But all IOS versions are *affected* by the *mechanism* he
> described. <<
>
> It's acutally a bit worse than that, IPv6 is enabled on all interfaces,
> you have to execute "no ipv6 enable" and "no ipv6 address" command on
> each interface to disable it.
>
> Second, the exploit is limited to local network segment, except it seems
> to me a worm that spreads from router to router could spread via the
> local network since a local network segment is usually defined as the
> wire between two routers.. Infection would spread from one router to
> it's peers, to those peers, etc. (please correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> Geo.
>
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