[35117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Tue Feb 27 08:27:29 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:23:11 -0800
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: Jim Duncan <jnduncan@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010227211130.S68390@ewok.creative.net.au>; from adrian@creative.net.au on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:31PM +0800
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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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