Cisco Operating System Has Security Flaw (News)

Thu Jul 17 22:07:32 PDT 2003

This only affects IPv4 users.

You folks aren't still using IPv4 are you?

Quoting richard childers / kg6hac (fscked at pacbell.net):
>  NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A security flaw has been found in Cisco Systems 
> Inc.'s (CSCO) internetwork operating system that could allow hackers to 
> penetrate all of Cisco's routers.
> 
> Cisco released a security advisory detailing "a significant denial of 
> service vulnerability that affects its entire line of IPv4 devices," 
> Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISSX) said Thursday.

(see CERT for more ACTUAL information and bugtraq for speculation.