Cisco Systems and ISS late Wednesday filed for an injunction against a former ISS researcher who exposed vulnerabilities in Cisco’s router operating system at the Black Hat conference at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas • July 23-28, 2005 earlier in the day.
Basically this adds a whole new twist to the router exploit field. Remote code executation via buffer overflow. That in general has not existed in the cisco world because no one had developed it. In the past most router vulnerabilities were denial of service vulnerabilities. See this CRN article for additional details on this event.
Also this year's Black Hat presentations are now online...Basically this adds a whole new twist to the router exploit field. Remote code executation via buffer overflow. That in general has not existed in the cisco world because no one had developed it. In the past most router vulnerabilities were denial of service vulnerabilities. See this CRN article for additional details on this event.
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