Holy Grail

Fri Aug 12 17:57:35 UTC 2005

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:33:40 EDT, "J. Oquendo" said:
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>>their equipment. If it's IPv6 based only, and not that big of a threat,
>>then they should see no problem with the information being released.
> 
> 
> The specific exploit was IPv6 only.  The concept that IOS is a sane operating
> system, and that given a vulnerability, you just need to do X and Y and Z in a
> fairly mechanical fashion to make a full blown exploit, is IOS-only.
> 
> Cisco is just busy having the same cow that everybody else had on the x86
> platform when Solar Designer wrote "Smashing the Stack for fun and profit",
> because this is basically "Smashing the IOS stack for fun and profit"....

Wasn't that Aleph1?