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Cisco Announces Holes In PIX Firewall

Posted by simoniker on from the net-also-full-of-holes dept.

iiioxx writes "Cisco Systems announced on December 15, 2003 that new security holes have been found in the PIX firewall IOS. The vulnerabilities are in SNMP and VPNC functionality, and both allow for DOS attacks against an affected firewall. Vulnerable IOS versions are 6.3.1, 6.2.2 and earlier, 6.1.4 and earlier. 5.x.x and earlier. There are a couple of workarounds for the SNMP vulnerability, but the only way to correct the VPNC problem is to upgrade the IOS."

2 of 23 comments (clear)

  1. Umm... its not IOS by LWolenczak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IOS is what is run on routers. IOS == Internetwork Operating System. PIX OS is completely different. Infact, Cisco has been spending lots of time trying to make PIX OS to look like IOS.

  2. Hey... by jazman_777 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When they say "holes in the firewall" it sounds like functionality. How about "defects" or "bugs"? Really, most firewalls have holes.

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