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Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up
From: John Forrister <john () segfault com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:35:19 -0700
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:01:42AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
could they be unpatched because no one has sent out a notice saying "versions before X have known vulnerabilities. upgrade now to one of the following: ...?"
or... cause new IOS won't run on them.
Indeed - Cisco's hardware, especially the older, smaller boxes, tended to be really solid once you got them running. I was just pondering a few minutes ago on how many 2500's I configured & installed in 1996 & 1997 are still running today, on code that's no longer supported by Cisco, and which are incapable of taking enough flash to load a newer image. -John
Current thread:
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up, (continued)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Jul 28)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Jul 28)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Florian Weimer (Jul 28)
- RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Geo. (Jul 28)
- RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Randy Bush (Jul 28)
- RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up John A. Kilpatrick (Jul 28)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up James Baldwin (Jul 28)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Randy Bush (Jul 28)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up James Baldwin (Jul 28)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Florian Weimer (Jul 28)
- RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 28)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up John Forrister (Jul 29)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up David Barak (Jul 29)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Scott Whyte (Jul 29)
- RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Scott Morris (Jul 29)
- RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up David Barak (Jul 29)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Janet Sullivan (Jul 29)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Chris Adams (Jul 29)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 29)
- Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 30)