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Exploit Available for Cisco IOS Vulnerability

Posted by michael on from the there-goes-the-internet dept.

GNUman writes "Cisco's IOS vulnerability, posted by Slashdot and CERT, has now a published exploit available, as reported recently by CERT. While there are some some articles claiming that the Internet survived a major flaw, maybe with a publicly available exploit could script kiddies start creating havock?. jerw134 wanted to start a pool to find out when the exploit would be publicly available, here's the answer."

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  1. Great... by mfifer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...the 'sploit is more easily available than the fix!

    Anyone else gone through hell today trying to get the patch from Cisco?

    Grrr... >-/

  2. Re:Exploits et al., by Burlynerd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're right on the money with the "maturity" comments, Jack. The way technology has been running, we have been in a constant state of trying to learn something new. We've never really had a chance to get "really good" at some of our technologies, before the next version or replacement technology arrived.

    The Cisco situation is not due to bleeding edge issues though. They should have found this problem sooner.

  3. Is this a problem of feature inflation? by CraigV · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had the impression that routing was a fairly straight-forward task and that 100% reliable software should be available for the routers. Has Cisco added frills to such an extent that the basic routing is compromised? Is this current problem associated with unnecessary features?