[59653] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Cisco Vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Wed Jul 16 19:16:29 2003
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:15:56 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: John Curran <jcurran@xo.com>
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>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.
>
>Something about packets malformed in a certain manner cause the
>router to wedge.
>
>Can anyne shed any light on or off list?
>
>-vb
Rumor has it that more information will be coming soon, but in the
interim it's recommend to drop packets destined for the router itself
which don't originate from a known source.
/John
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-3"
color="#000000">Hello All,</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-3"
color="#000000">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.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-3"
color="#000000">Something about packets malformed in a certain
manner cause the router to wedge.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-3"
color="#000000">Can anyne shed any light on or off
list?</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-3"
color="#000000">-vb</font></blockquote>
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<div>Rumor has it that more information will be coming soon, but in
the interim it's recommend to drop packets destined for the router
itself which don't originate from a known source.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>/John</div>
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