CISCO 0-day exploits

Tue Feb 11 11:07:05 UTC 2020

On 2/11/2020 2:04 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 09:09, Ahmed Borno <amaged at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> So yeah iACLs, CoPP and all sorts of basic precautions are needed, but I'm thinking something more needs to be done, specially if these ancient code stacks are being imported into new age 'IoT' devices, multiplying the attack vector by a factor of too many.
> 
> I can't see situation getting better. Why should vendor invest in high
> quality code, certainly the cultural shift will cost something, it's
> not 0 cost and what is the upside? If IOS and JunOS realistically were
> significantly less buggy many of us would stop buying support, because
> we either know how to configure these or can get help faster free from
> the community, we largely need the support because the software
> quality is so bad _everyone_ finds new bugs all the time and we don't
> have the source code to fix it as a community.
> So I suspect significantly better quality software would at least
> initially cost more to produce and it would reduce revenue in loss of
> support.

Yeah, things need to get better, and soon.  At least, some things...

Was I too subtle just now?

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