[59645] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Cisco Vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Wed Jul 16 16:20:33 2003
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:18:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Cc: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>,
"vbono@vinny.org" <vbono@vinny.org>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1058371612@[172.30.103.252]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, John Payne wrote:
> --On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:50 PM -0700 Gregory Hicks
> <ghicks@cadence.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >> From: "Vincent J. Bono" <vbono@vinny.org>
> >> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:17:54 -0400
> >>
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> There seem to be rumors going around that there is a new major Cisco
> >> vulnerability but only the major backbones are being given fixes
> >> right now.
> >
> > Not 100% true... Anyone with a Catalyst 4000/5000/6000 can get it -
> > free. See this URL for details.
> >
> > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20030709-swtcp.shtml
>
>
> Different vulnerability from what I hear.
I'm hearing similar rumors, and Genuity has a "planned emergency
maintenance" tomorrow morning, and there's some major weirdness with
our AT&T feed over the past half hour.
The rumored vulnerability is IOS, not CatOS and supposedly causes a reload,
not a telnet DoS.
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