Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.

John Payne john at sackheads.org
Tue Feb 27 13:23:11 UTC 2001


On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:31PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001, Jim Duncan wrote:
> 
> > As a side note, this is a problem with the standards.  In particular,
> > how the standards _require_ a function to be implemented.
> 
> <TONGUE LOCATION="CHEEK">
>   Now, if only all other standards were implemented so faithfully
>   by all the vendors ..
> </TONGUE>
> 
> :-)
> 
> (sorry, couldn't resist.)
> 
> And yes, we received a call at work from our cisco rep outlining the
> bug a few days ago. That was really nice of them. Well done guys.

And for those of us that don't qualify as special to cisco...

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/ios-snmp-ilmi-vuln-pub.shtml

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