Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up
John Forrister
john at segfault.com
Fri Jul 29 17:35:19 UTC 2005
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
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